My oldest daughter Michelle left home to attend school out of state this year.
I miss her more than words can say. She was my daily companion for so long that when she left it felt like a hole was carved out of my heart and shipped over to Utah.
She stayed home these past four years and worked as a Nanny. I was very ill and she helped so much with my work of Mothering Benjamin that she is like a second mother to him. Ben has also struggled as he adjusted to his Shelly being gone.
The other day I put together a montage of her life as a birthday present.
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Based on Richard A. Epstein’s new Broadside, this video outlines the differences between the classical liberalism of the Tea Parties and the progressive agenda advanced by the OWS movement, and reveals that the painful performance of the American economy in the past decade is not a function of bad luck, but the product of flawed institutional design.
We are reaping the harvest of efforts to reinvigorate the progressive programs of the New Deal that stress high progressive taxes, large transfer payments, strong labor laws, and major barriers to free trade. This combination of public finance and market regulation has proved a potent force for disaster.
Richard Allen Epstein (born April 17, 1943) is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law and Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School.
“The Occupy movement seems to have dropped out of the news lately. Why did that happen? I think the people are still out there, but the coverage is mostly gone. There is this Drudge-linked AP report about campers in LA and Philadelphia getting rousted by the police. That’s a news event — cops in riot gear, people arrested — and it’s covered. What’s missing is all the attention to the demands and critiques of the protesters — the political substance of the movement.
I’m guessing that the expression of the protesters — in form and substance — wasn’t serving the interests journalists favor. Excessively left-wing speech coming out of an angry/confused/unclean face… it’s not helping the mainstream Democrats.”
Last month I dedicated Blogging Mothers Magazine to the difference between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
Paul drove with Jeffrey and Andrew to Utah last week to spend some precious time with his Father, who is bedridden, and the whole extended family, who gather together every other year to Celebrate Thanksgiving.
I stayed home because we didn’t think I could make the trip with my lungs so congested. It is extremely dehydrating to drive over the mountains of Colorado and through the desert of southern Utah. I have done it many times before, but am still recovering from a summer illness. So I stayed home with Benjamin and Samwise and we had a nice quiet week.
Here are a few pictures from Pauls Trip:
Paul has been thrilled by our daughters choice to attend SUU in Cedar City. Jeff was just accepted this past week and we are curious to see if he decides to attend with his sisters next fall. Pauls parents were both professors at the school, and he and his six siblings all attended for undergraduate work.
Allison, Jeffrey, Andrew, and Michelle with Grandpa Hatch
Every once in a great while I take a chance and rent a movie from Redbox without knowing anything about it.
Most of the time what I see is the same pointless drivel that flows out of Hollywood year after year.
I was shocked to pick up Sarah’s Key the other day, and find myself transported to 1942 Paris France into the chaos of yet another Holocaust Story that nobody ever taught me about in History Class.
The pure emotion of this amazing movie, so well crafted, acted, and musically scored left me quite drained emotionally. The day after viewing it I watched the Making of the Movie documentary on the DVD and read the English subtitles as the French Writer, Director, Crew, and Actors explained the backstory of the book and movie.
Then last night I popped the disc into my player once again and watched it a second time, reveling in movie making at its very best. As the spirit of the story washed over me, I felt enlivened and overwhelmed by the tender way this story was crafted.
Today before returning the movie, I plan to watch it a third time, as my own personal holiday celebration of Family, Life, Love, and Truth. I have already put the book on my Amazon wish list and plan to purchase the movie for our home Library when I have a few extra dollars laying around. When my daughters return home from school for Christmas Break watching Sarahs Key with them will be a high priority during our three weeks of vacation together.
As I watched the second time, I found the story of the modern day journalist more compelling and relevent to my own life than Sarahs Journey…
I am curious to see how a third viewing touches my heart.
Today I am so grateful for the craft of movie making. It touches me on every level.