Not only a typeface, but also a massive gesture, daunting to ignore, revealing as a Christmas tree hung from buildings indicates significant steps toward its completion. Too, a daring kiss, a stolen embrace, new love.
Brokeback Mountain (9/10 Rating) Released December 9, 2005 (Limited) For rent/purchase on all major platforms. Genre: Contemporary Western, Period Drama, Tragic Romance R: Sexuality, nudity, language, and some violence 2h 14m Watching films from the early 2000s has reminded me how much American culture has changed in such a short period of time, but... Read More
Recently, I did some shopping at the Dollar Tree in Danville Plaza II on Mount Cross Road across from Walmart. While standing in the checkout line, I watched as the cashier rang up the purchases of several customers in front of me. These “Dollar Tree treasures” were of a Christmas Season nature; plastic branches and... Read More
Not long ago, I was lined up to be the guest soloist at Danville’s Trinity United Methodist Church. This was not something new to me, as I have enjoyed such brief Sunday “song sojourns” to other churches over the years. I have enjoyed the people I met; and they seem to have enjoyed me. The... Read More
Brilliant, diamond facets glisten, radiant as if finger fitted suns. Worn as rings, nuptial treasures, they showcase love, true, unbreakable, obvious, radiant as any bride’s smile, impervious as trust that has no hardness scale.
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (7/10 Rating) Released October 21, 2005 (Limited) For rent/purchase on all major platforms. Genre: Bumbling Detective, Dark Comedy, Satire, Whodunnit, Crime, Mystery R: Language, Violence, and Sexuality/Nudity 1h 43m One of my hopes with this column is to find genuine film gems I missed when they came out twenty years... Read More
No, this isn’t about global warming. But if there can be “Christmas in July,” well, perhaps there can be “July in October!” (not as big a jump as the former, and in the opposite direction). One day back in July, I set out on my regular walk at Ballou Park. The day was already starting... Read More
The Labor Day holiday is often thought of as the end of summer, but the calendar shows September 22nd as the last day of summer. If you live in South-Central Virginia, the summer heat does not stop until October. By that time, one may really want a break from the summer heat. This is one... Read More
Strength. How must it be measured? What is its nature? Metal or mental? Useful? Or not? Consider its worth. Can it help? Or heal? When is its use apropos? Only the weaker ones know, to treasure their strength for use in ways that guard them.
In early fall of last year, I was driving south on Piedmont Drive with the afternoon sun in my eyes, while approaching the permanently closed Hibachi Grill and Supreme Buffet, up ahead and to my right. To my “late-afternoon sun-blinded amazement,” I was able to make out a number of sunlit windshields in the parking... Read More
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