tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post963667219805326889..comments2024-03-19T07:36:33.915-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: New Year's EveDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-23006483551865607192007-01-02T14:01:00.000-05:002007-01-02T14:01:00.000-05:00lucky for Sean you were around - hope there are mo...lucky for Sean you were around - hope there are more out there like you willing to take out all the other Sean's of the world - and what a great mom - there's much to learn from her as well!linahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00675640977094855867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-87290127539259751912006-12-30T22:30:00.000-05:002006-12-30T22:30:00.000-05:00This funny story reminds me of the old movie, "The...This funny story reminds me of the old movie, "The Dream Team," which I watched with two friends last night. We cringed time and again through the movie at the learned helplessness of the mental patients and the artificial, microcosmic world they lived in with its own language and strangely foreign to the rest of the world, yet uncomfortably familiar to us, institutional patterns. <br /><br />Then having gone through the process of having no-one to rely on but themselves and each-other after their doctor gets knocked out and taken to hospital, they find resources they and the rest of the world, didn't know they had. <br /><br />We all cheered at the end when the doctors who planned to sedate them with medication, were admitted to hospital themselves and sedated. <br /><br />And the final scene, which relates to your blog post, was when, after their hilarious adventures their doctor drives them back to the hospital,to go back to work himself but not before giving them the keys to the van so they could all go off to a ball game-unsupervised.<br /><br />There is so much to laugh at and cry at in that movie--so many reflections of what still needs to change--and can as long as we see, and say, "That's ridiculous," and just get out of the way and let people live. And I don't really mean "let."Belindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09251920708783268740noreply@blogger.com