Superman grieves when an earthquake strikes Anyone who has gone through an earthquake won’t be thinking about the earthquake in Superman: The Movie (1978). That’s pretty much a given. (Not to denigrate in any way the experiences of people in earthquakes.) Many people have the seen the scene in Superman. In the desert, Daily Planet…

There’s a scene in family animation Finding Dory (2016, out now on DVD) where Dory is utterly lost. This small blue tang fish finds herself completely and utterly abandoned. The moments before there was help from her friends, but in a ‘change of tide’, she gets lost from her band of supporters. This is a moment where…

“You may not survive what the world puts you through…” — Heart of Gold, by Jon Gibson (from Gibson’s Body and Soul album, 1989) As Jon Gibson alludes to, there are battles in life that we won’t survive. But there is also the war which we may win. All of my previous posts about survival are…

I enjoyed Doctor Strange (2016). It takes us on a journey about the ‘spirit’. Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a witty, overly confident, self-assured neurosurgeon at the peak of his powers.     Strange is excellent at what he does. In one sequence, another surgeon has finished surgery. Strange observes that the surgeon’s work…

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