OGT DAILY - Day Thirty Five HUMAN

I forgot - Thirty four days till I messed up, but I'm human.  

And that's a good thing.   Human enough to treat myself well thru the flu.
Another good thing is that I had a flu shot otherwise I'd still be sick.   Normally I don't like medication or vaccines, but I work with children who have lost parents or siblings to cancer.  My most recent case is a pre-schooler with all the latest and greatest bugs.  So all considered I'm a happy camper.

I also had a chance to watch a few movies that restored my faith in humanity.

SELMA is a film that everyone should see.  It illustrates well the battles, which have been fought and just what is at stake in terms of the peoples' right to have their voices heard.

The other one is MOONLIGHT - a bleak, often ponderous, but also beautiful and accurate depiction of the emotional experience of many vulnerable young boys, who harden in protection against feeling anything.   The illustration of inarticulate frozen fear and rage is one so familiar to me from so many beautiful young men I have worked with in my years as a therapist.

I'll bet it will not be a the Oscar winner  (not with Lala Land) - just as SELMA wasn't, but they both should be.   It was the Golden Globe Best Picture and well deserved.