i was productive & pontificating this weekend.
saturday was spent sweatily pulling down boxes & furniture from my attic space in preparation for the move in three weeks time. who knew i had so much junk? it's a testament to my packrat tendencies, as many things have been in boxes since i moved into the place over three years ago. just a reminder that i have some purging to do (which included three trashbags of stuff yesterday).
i also managed to take some books to a used bookseller. they took about 35 of my 50-some books. for those 35 books i got $12.45 in cash & $9.20 in a store credit. something seems not right here. the remaining books went to the good will nearby.
yesterday afternoon i took a break from packing & purging to see PAPER CLIPS. it was really a beautiful reflection of how at the core we are all very human, indeed. a group of tennessee middle school students began studying the holocaust back in the late 1990s. in an effort to better visualize in a tangible way what the number 6 million (the number of jews exterminated during the holocaust) would look like, these students had a goal to collect 6 million paper clips.
this documentary followed the project from beginning to end, showing all that went into it. the journey that the kids, teachers & dwellers of this small, economically-challenged tennessee town took, was indescribable. & by journey, i mean the emotional changes that occurred. it was apparent that some misconceptions & prejudices faded away as they realized that there are actual people behind the holocaust survivor & perisher stories. it took it beyond the 2d textbook image of an emaciated polish camp-dweller into the realm of a real, live survivor of some of the atrocities that occurred during WWII. the survivors stories, their desire to travel to this tiny town in the middle of nowhere to share with these students, & the care & attention to creating a memorial of this magnitude really does restore faith in some of humanity.
go learn more about the holocaust. we are a unique generation in that we still have survivors with us. future generations will hear about it only through film or textbooks.
go see THIS PROJECT'S WEBSITE.
go read THIS BOOK ABOUT THE PROJECT, written by white house correspondents (& major participants in this project), peter schroeder and dagmar schroeder-hildebrand.
and then, i quite simply urge you, go see this film.
saturday was spent sweatily pulling down boxes & furniture from my attic space in preparation for the move in three weeks time. who knew i had so much junk? it's a testament to my packrat tendencies, as many things have been in boxes since i moved into the place over three years ago. just a reminder that i have some purging to do (which included three trashbags of stuff yesterday).
i also managed to take some books to a used bookseller. they took about 35 of my 50-some books. for those 35 books i got $12.45 in cash & $9.20 in a store credit. something seems not right here. the remaining books went to the good will nearby.
yesterday afternoon i took a break from packing & purging to see PAPER CLIPS. it was really a beautiful reflection of how at the core we are all very human, indeed. a group of tennessee middle school students began studying the holocaust back in the late 1990s. in an effort to better visualize in a tangible way what the number 6 million (the number of jews exterminated during the holocaust) would look like, these students had a goal to collect 6 million paper clips.
this documentary followed the project from beginning to end, showing all that went into it. the journey that the kids, teachers & dwellers of this small, economically-challenged tennessee town took, was indescribable. & by journey, i mean the emotional changes that occurred. it was apparent that some misconceptions & prejudices faded away as they realized that there are actual people behind the holocaust survivor & perisher stories. it took it beyond the 2d textbook image of an emaciated polish camp-dweller into the realm of a real, live survivor of some of the atrocities that occurred during WWII. the survivors stories, their desire to travel to this tiny town in the middle of nowhere to share with these students, & the care & attention to creating a memorial of this magnitude really does restore faith in some of humanity.
go learn more about the holocaust. we are a unique generation in that we still have survivors with us. future generations will hear about it only through film or textbooks.
go see THIS PROJECT'S WEBSITE.
go read THIS BOOK ABOUT THE PROJECT, written by white house correspondents (& major participants in this project), peter schroeder and dagmar schroeder-hildebrand.
and then, i quite simply urge you, go see this film.
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