Feeding Your Soul

Today of all days it is important for people to have entertainment as outlets. I am not talking about the “entertainment” that is the news nowadays. I am talking about the entertainment of movies, books, television shows, music and radio.   These pieces of entertainment give us an outlet for an hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, however long we need to feel safe and secure. I found myself watching the Red Sox last night and already this week I have watched more Red Sox than I did all of last year. When every other news station is blaring out one unconfirmed lead after another you become immune and numb to it all. You need a release, something to take you to another world for a little while, while you decompress and return to normalcy.   After the Red Sox won I immediately went to another piece of entertainment – my book of the moment, Masquerade part of the Blue Blood series by Melissa de la Cruz.   It isn’t the most intelligent and thought provoking books in the world but i...

In the middle book of the Fifty Shades trilogy that has launched in popularity all over the word, Ana finds herself broken up with her Fifty Shades, Christian,   and mourning the loss of her libido.   She was scared of whom Christian became in the Red Room of Pain and thought at that moment that there was no way it was going to work; he was too damaged for anything to work out between them. At least she thought.   Circumstances arise that lead her and Christian to attend her friend Jose’s gallery opening and bringing all of those feelings she doesn’t want to feel to the surface.   But this time she is ready – at least more than before.   She knows what she wants and will fight to have him and the man she knows he is. She is also less afraid to tell him (notice how I said less and not fully).   This starts Ana’s journey into the darker side of her Fifty Shades. At first I was hesitant to read the second book.   I didn’t want every other page to be...

When you have done one thing your entire life, it is the backbone of your existence what happens to you when it is suddenly taken away? In Trouble With the Curve starring Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams, Gus has been a baseball scout for as long as he can remember.   He has a keen eye to finding the best of the best and sticks with his gut.   When his eye sight starts failing and he starts to go legally blind he doesn’t   know what to do or where to turn.   His friends ask his lawyer daughter to help him when they know he would never ask for her help. When she arrives to “help” him, he keeps telling her to leave that he doesn’t need help and she keeps staying.   Stubbornness runs in the family.   The story follows the two on this journey of self-discovery – who are you when everyone around you is saying you lost it.   This movie was different than I expected.   I was expecting light-hearted banter between Eastwood and Adams.   Even though...