Sunday, April 26, 2015


Today after Sunday mass, Lynn asked if I would like to go to the movies? Remembering that it not “good to be negative” and I like movies, so off we went to the Tower Theatre in Little Havana and saw – “The Salt of the Earth”, which was about a Brazilian photographer, Sebastião Salgado who has been travelling through the world and witnessed and photograph some extremely selfish act of one group against another pitiful groups. Most were major events of our recent history, which have faded from concern or memory! i.e.: the massacre in Rwanda or a cholera epidemic in Ethiopia or problems which Doctors Without Borders were and are helpless to solve. He photograph graphically and was able to record the event. Brutal dictatorships + and careless Western countries seem almost routine in his photogenic experience, and so are the outrageous examples of man’s inhumanity to man: international conflicts, starvation, and exodus! Ignored! He photographs in Black and White which seemed to emphasize the ugly and darker side of those experiences. He made his point – Painfully Clear! In attempt to escape our self-made “Black-White Guilt Trip”, we went off to Key Biscayne and the Rusty Pelican, attempting to camouflage the emotional downer - worked slightly!  Not sure that I’d recommend the movie – Those things occurred during my adult life and apparently I had forgotten – inintentionally or deliberate – I’m not sure! God, Help us and others!

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