September 3, 2007

My “Special Purpose”

With a grateful nod to Steve Martin for providing the title of this post.

 My purpose in starting this blog was to chronicle my state of being after watching the movie "What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire" by Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson (http://whatawaytogomovie.com).  The subject of the movie is nothing new to anybody who’s been paying attention to the world we’re living in.  But the way the material is presented produced a phenomenal effect in me.  A deeply emotional response that made me feel alive for the first time in years.  Why?  It tells the truth in a personal and personable way from an experiential level… and that’s how we’re all dealing with it anyway, ain’t it?  Or in denial about it.

*I’m trying to figure out how to make this a "sticky" so that it’ll always be on the homepage… until then, I’ll just post it here.