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Kate and I watched Precious tonight.\u00a0 Kate found it an uplifting story.\u00a0 I found it tragic.\u00a0 Whichever view you take, this is a fine movie, capturing the fantasy that can keep us alive, the brutality physical and emotional that can keep us down and the complex network that captures each one of us, shapes us and spits us out whole. This was a bitter, intimate, too close look at a world so many do not even know exists.\u00a0 It is a strange celebration of the often maligned networks that buttress our countries most neglected and abused.\u00a0 A social worker looks good here.\u00a0 A halfway house has a positive impact as does an alternative school and a teacher in it.<\/p>\n
Precious gets up, falls down, gets kicked, kicked again, yet keeps moving forward.\u00a0 That’s the positive note, the uplifting part.\u00a0 The tragic part is the vast sea of girls and boys in similar circumstances who stop moving forward, who never get past the street, the labyrinth.<\/p>\n
Kate works tomorrow, as a Jew she tries to work the Christian holydays.\u00a0 I plan to dig into the declutter project yet one more time.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 Still more to do, more places to clear.\u00a0 Also, some Latin.\u00a0 Maybe a bit of outside time.\u00a0 Maybe a bit more on Romanticism.\u00a0 We’ll see after the decluttering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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