Scenes

I noticed a few mysterious shadows around — Afternoon I was brewing a cup of tea when I noticed an abrupt face at the bedroom window. I went to see who it was.

“For Andy, getting three beers a piece and to have some suds as him and the guys work outdoors in the heat is worth the perilous personal risk that he put himself through to make it happen.” — Sometimes, it pays to speak up and be heard even if you’re a convicted felon. Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins) is a few years into his prison stint at Shawshank State Prison in rural Maine. He proclaims his innocence to Red (played by Morgan Freeman, his good friend in…

DOWN THE INTERSTATE, that first Christmas in New Jersey, I was in the car with Uncle Joe at the wheel of Aunt Jane’s leased Buick. “Plum,” she was haughty for it was a superior color. My father was in a snowflake sweater in the passenger seat, hanging onto the handle. I was behind him. We watched a terrible, wonderful blizzard outside our windows—nothing was visible. I went from pure fire to a snowstorm. …

“Sometimes, the only way to move forward in life is to look for a sign or in this case, a person to help guide you in the right direction.” — “You look lost.” “I do?” “Where you headed?”, “Well, I was just about to figure that out.” There are moments in life where the road ahead looks vague and uncertain, where we struggle to figure out what happens next or what should we do next. You can have a…

“It feels more real than any other comic book movie and the character development is better than most other movies due to the major scenes having a deeper meaning behind them that continue throughout the Nolan Batman trilogy.” — As I have written in a previous blog article, ‘Batman Begins’, directed by Christopher Nolan is one of my all-time favorite movies and still my favorite comic book movie. It feels more real than any other comic book movie and the character development is better than most other movies due…

(The breeze is strong in the area. The birds silently fly above the sky, and chirps are heard from time to time. It’s bitter and cold. Edgar is wearing a thick tweed jacket, but Beatrice is without a coat. She shivers slightly as Edgar walks closer to her. They are…