The past few days, I’ve watched three great films.  Recommended highly! —

Dave  with actor Kevin Kline was assigned viewing for my Screenplay Workshop class.  This fun movie has some important political messages — have fun and sing out loud without a care;  believe in your own heart’s concerns and decide to try; act with the belief that you are powerful;  demonstrate integrity; act on behalf of those less fortunate; full employment is a good thing for our communities.

Mary, Andrew, Jan, Don Felipe and I watched Part One of the Ken Burns’ PBS National Parks series.  Part One covers the first National Park designation — Yellowstone;  and the second, Yosemite.  And it introduces us to the beautiful life and writing of John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club.  Watch this on the largest screen possible.  Its mighty scenery!

Finally, today, I took the third grade classes from Blackshear Elementary School to see Flight of the Butterflies in 3D at the Bullock IMAX.  The kids agreed that it has the best 3D effect ever.  And they loved the story of how scientist Fred Urquhart and his partner Nora Patterson discovered the amazing migration and destination of the monarch butterflies.

I’m inspired by it all to share this Muir quote and my recent photo of Texas’ Gorman Falls with you —

Everything is flowing — going somewhere, animals and so-called lifeless rocks as well as water. Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanches; the air in majestic floods carrying minerals, plant leaves, seeds, spores, with streams of music and fragrance; water streams carrying rocks… While the stars go streaming through space pulsed on and on forever like blood…in nature’s warm heart.

My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) chapter 10, John Muir