Saturday, May 9, 2009

Three Beautiful Things 05/09/09: Torino, Family, Hopkins

1. I loved watching Clint Eastwood play embittered Walt Kowalski's heart slowly thaw as he becomes closer and closer with the Hmong family next door in the movie Gran Torino.

2. Rarely do I get to talk on the phone with my sisters and mother while they are pounding down Sangria out back at Mom's in the early May sunshine, having just shared in a Mother's Day meal (a day early). But today I did.

3. I enjoyed reading a New Yorker essay on Gerard Manley Hopkins, not because the essay was stellar, but Hopkins' poetry is, and I enjoyed remembering the indelible impact his poetry made on me when I was twenty years old and a sophomore at North Idaho College.

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