Their story resembles a fairy tale. The sisters and competitive swimmers Yusra and Sarah Mardini are fleeing the civil war in Syria.
In 2016, they even made it to the Olympic Games. Now her story has been made into a film.
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Some will be familiar with Milan Kundera’s book, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”. It’s a great novel, an international bestseller. The author made me think.
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“Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer’s love.
Look at it now, plump and glossy, floating across Idaho as if it were a mammoth, mutated seed pod. Hear how it backfires as it passes the silver mines, perhaps in tribute to the origin of the knives and forks of splendid sterling that a roast turkey and a roast turkey alone possesses the charisma to draw forth into festivity from dark cupboards.
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In 9th grade, after reading about Joan of Arc, we watched Carl Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc, a French silent historical film. Some of the girls in our girl’s only boarding school were quickly bored, and continued to look at the teenage magazines they had smuggled into the auditorium, the rest of us were mesmerized by the screen.
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The happy Quitter! 