June 5, 2017
This week will be devoted to timely entertainment – a phrase stretchy enough that I can get a few disparate things in, all of which I find worthy of attention.
We start with a 1942 movie by Ernst Lubitsch – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuRcwikuztE
Here is a superb analysis of why the film is worth seeing and applicable to our own times….
I have generally avoided watching movies about war or Nazis across my lifetime (and this from someone who is addicted to mysteries, action thrillers, the occasional horror movie – think Fortitude which I highly recommend as character study and a view os the beauty of Iceland.) I fear seeing something that you know was real, IS real, adds that extra level of stress hormone that my body can do without. But To Be or Not to Be was on for the weekend and had me laugh out loud in ways that felt healing in these dark times.
Photographs are reminders of the fact that some of us believe that the US is not immune to events as they unfold in the movie….. 
Nicky Larson
You should have seen the hundreds of flags at the March for Truth on Saturday: “Taking back Patriotism”!!
Deb Meyer
We always had an American Flag flying from our home. We don’t anymore because I don’t feel the pride anymore since Trump became President. He embarrasses me and this makes me feel sad, not patriotic at all!