Message Rain
  • Home
  • About us
    • Legal Entity & Privacy Policy
    • Our Messages >
      • I don't blame you
      • Please
      • That takes ovaries!
      • Sacred Sexuality
      • We blame Glenn!
  • Guide
  • Books & Essays
    • a man wearing a dress >
      • About This Book
      • Ordering
      • Excerpts
      • Study Guide
      • Note from the author
      • Bookseller Info
      • Promotional Items
    • Still Life (without the vase)
    • Poetry Looks at Itself
    • Essays & Commentary
  • Events
    • Workshops
    • Scheduling
  • Blogs
    • Announcements
    • Gender Blog
    • Topic Blog
    • Good News Department
    • Inner Blog
  • Other Products
    • Stickers
    • T-Shirts
    • Buttons
  • Support
  • Sister Sites
  • Contact Us

You can do this!

2/11/2017

1 Comment

 
Lately, I've started hosting a series of film showings, followed by discussion, in my living room. No more than about 10 or 12 people. This is not a business or an organization, just an activity.
The films we see have some kind of social commentary. The first one we watched was "Where to Invade Next" by Michael Moore. The next one is "The Man in the White Suit" from 1951, with Alec Guinness. It's a science fiction comedy about a man who develops a fabric that never wears out. The one after that is "Food Fight" about how employees and shoppers changed the course of a major grocery business, here in New England.  The one after that is, "The Mask You Live In," which follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity.

You can do this!  Share a link to this blog post. Choose a film to watch. Invite ten of your friends to join you. We're doing this early on Sunday evenings, but you can pick any time. Let me know how it works out.  Just click on the link that says "n Comments" (however many there are) and let us know how well you did.

Soon, I'm going to hold a discussion group where each person has to bring another person who did not vote the same way they did in the November election. For example: A Hillary voter has to bring a Trump voter. A Stein voter has to bring someone who didn't vote. This will be about listening, not arguing. I have a structure in mind, which I will explain as the group sits down to start. We will keep track of time. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
1 Comment
Glenn C. Koenig link
2/12/2017 04:36:20 am

I'm commenting on my own blog post to change the line that says "0 Comments" to read "1 Comment" instead. And, also, to remind myself of how the process works (to enter comments).
Once you post a comment, you can't go back and change it, so if you put something up and discover an error, contact me and I'll remove it so you can start over.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Glenn Koenig is the manager of this and other web sites, an author, video producer, database designer, and volunteer.

    Archives

    October 2020
    August 2019
    July 2019
    January 2019
    October 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    October 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    March 2016
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly