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New stills from movie filming in Charlotte. I can’t wait for this movie!
“Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets.”
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I read this book years ago. It was interesting to learn a little about the opposite sex. Although even after reading this informative and creative book I was still just as perplexed about men than I was before I read it. I have concluded that no matter how much time one invests in understanding the dynamics of a relationship one cannot even come close to unlocking the secrets of a perfect union between two people. It really boils down to experience, self-confidence, and the ability to be able to have a “give-and-take” outlook on life, love and the pursuit of happiness.
Overall, it is a decent book, but I wouldn’t recommend reading it in the hopes that you are ever going to understand the opposite sex or in the hopes that after completing the book you will land a significant other that is, “the one”.
This book, by TL Hines, was an interesting and quick read. His first novel delivers an interesting story, and a thrilling end.
The main character in the book, Jude, gains some sort of ability to see into the lives of those he meets just by a brief touch. He gained this ability through his many near death experiences, with each experience leading up to the main experience he has in which he solves a major abduction case in the small town he moved to for peace and quiet.
With the help of a woman which seems to be nothing but a fan, or to him a stalker, he finds out that the trusted sheriff of the town is actually the one that has been abducting, torturing and killing children in a radius around the small town, but now within. Jude has an ex-wife and a son that he does not see much since developing severe anxiety and being so withdrawn. After his brushes with death the breaking open of a case so big involving innocent children, Jude comes out of his years of withdrawn and obsessive compulsive disorder-ridden life and emerges a new man left to appreciate his life, and the lives of his loved ones, and makes amends with his estranged father as well.
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This past week I finished all three books in the Hunger Games Trilogy. What an amazing set of books written by an equaling amazing author, Suzanne Collins. What soon will be (in less than a year) adapted as a movie, the books met and surpassed my highest expectations.
Recommended these books by a friend and co-worker I was eager to get started on what would be a very graphic journey into this new world in the not so distant future. She actually lent me the first book in the series, The Hunger Games, in paperback. Here is a little background on The Hunger Games, the location, the premise behind it all.
“In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. However, Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival.” Continue reading »
I just finished Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilberts (Thanks Rosemary for letting me borrow this book almost a year ago. I have been reading it off and on throughout the past year. I tried to parallel my own experiences with karma, yoga, and other spiritual journeys with what she experienced. I am convinced however, that I in order to really get outside of your own head, a physical journey is almost required. Just the act of leaving the familiar, and going somewhere far away and unfamiliar, leaving all your issues and everyday worries behind seems like it would be cleansing, and at first scary, would turn out to be very worthwhile. It is hard to move on from feelings that hold you back in life when constantly surrounded by the stimuli that cause those feelings.
Not all of us can afford to leave for a year and go on a spiritual journey, but I highly recommend, no matter the amount of daily duties, or others you are obligated to, to take time out, if not daily, weekly for yourself to reflect on your thoughts. Exercise or meditate (if you can), or just exist and do absolutely nothing, no matter how foreign it feels.
I took away from the book the notion that you cannot fully love, or be love by another person until you love yourself. Loving yourself, well easier said than done. You have to purge yourself of guilt, the past, your faults, and accept all the negative things from your head into your heart giving those things a place to call home, and when they are out of your head, they are no longer bouncing around in your head, terrorizing you on a daily basis. Filling your heart with love and invariably light, and then inviting the “darkness” into your heart, only then is it consumed by the light. For a while, kick everything out of your mind and give you a chance to focus your thoughts and calm your ever-constant fluttering mind. You may just find things out about yourself that you never knew before. However, you move those thoughts from head to heart is yours to discover. Meditation, yoga, or spiritual journeys (physical and emotional), just to mention a few are all ways to get you started.
Whatever path you choose I wish you luck. I hope to forge ahead into the unknown finding my own path to spiritual enlightenment, and peace within.
