Movies and Television

Star Wars and Personal Accountability

January 4, 2012

So I’ve been watching parts of the original Star Wars with my young son as he’s been getting into it. I realized there is some great typology and examples of how people deal with conflict, stress, or adversity. So here we go: Luke Skywalker: The Whiner Degenerates into complaining and whining when things don’t go [...]

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My 2011 Christmas Haiku Contest Entry

December 12, 2011

I once again submitted an entry, though a bit last minute to my friend Stephanie’s Holiday Haiku Contest. My theme was Christmas tv shows and I was inspired from our unfortunate flu night, the night we’ll never forget as a family, as inspiration. The contest is winding down so it might only be open for [...]

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Nobody Likes Passive Aggressive Smurf

August 9, 2011

I’m taking a break from recruiting for the Systems & Power Leadership Community and going to share a reflection from my viewing of the new Smurfs movie and give a quick review. It’s a good change of pace. First, I rather enjoyed the movie as I took my 3 1/2 and 6 1/2 year old [...]

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Quick Thoughts on Young @ Heart

May 21, 2011

How often do you think about the elderly? Now, if you are elderly – you may think about them a lot! I think it’s a reality that society has moved a direction in which the elderly are very much a forgotten part of society and in which they don’t receive as much honor as in [...]

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Charlie Sheen & Dorian Gray

April 5, 2011

This is a thought I had a month ago. Is Charlie Sheen the real life or modern Dorian Gray? Now, I tried reading Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray a while ago and didn’t quite make it. Turns out I wasn’t feeling it and I felt like I needed to turn my attentions elsewhere. But I’ve seen [...]

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My Gen X Reflections on Childhood Heroines

March 29, 2011

My head is about to explode these days from all the stuff I’m having to do, prepare, think about, and read. So I’m getting away from more serious minded things for a while here for my own sanity. My family was out at a TGIF’s last week and we were in a booth where there [...]

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My Thoughts on Dawn Treader and Identity

December 22, 2010

Last week I got away for a couple hours to see the new Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie. I wasn’t sure how they would make a good movie out of it, but I really enjoyed it. This book has some of the more vivid spiritual metaphors of the whole Narnia series and I liked [...]

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Beav’s Favorite 2010 Movies

December 21, 2010

Special thanks to TJ Poon for contributing a couple guest posts this week! Check out “The 5% Life” post links in the left sidebar. They gave me some things to really reflect on and I’ll continue to do so, but I’m directing this blog to a very different place now As is tradition, I’m rolling [...]

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The Infinite Queso Xmas Haiku Contest

December 4, 2010

Stephanie, who is the author of the blog “Infinite Queso” and who has guest blogged here before, is hosting her second annual Christmas Haiku contest. Head to the link below for the rules and for other submissions, but the theme is related to Christmas movies. I submitted my own so I’ll post it here to [...]

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