Home for one day. Just before midnight last night, I came home from Seattle having facilitated Dr. Pianist’s Team Building and Leadership Workshop in Seattle that afternoon. Tomorrow morning, I am flying to Houston.
I like the airports and the planes. I like watching people in transit. I like being in the air, suspended between places to go and things to do. I like watching movies, forgetting where I was, and where I am going.
I’ve been watching movies about lives of many phenomenal women. Yesterday, I watched Jackie, portrayed by Natalie Portman. The depiction of her struggle between her own personal memory and official record, and the process of reality becoming a historical narrative was deeply poignant.
The day before, on my way to Seattle, I watched Dr. Ruth, the documentary about a sex therapist and iconic TV personality. Her radiant personality, sense of humor, and her mission against prejudice and discrimination inspired me, made me smile and even chuckle at times.
And of course, I watched two other movies about another Ruth, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I started with the documentary, and was thoroughly impressed with her integrity, commitment and passion to her work, and again, her sense of humor.
Then, I watched “On the Basis of Sex” with RBG portrayed by Felicity Jones. Although I felt I knew so much about RBG’s life already from the documentary, I gained new insight into the strength RBG drew from her marriage and family life, and the other phenomenal women around her that enabled her to become the icon as a manifestation of all of their will, faith and work combined.
One of the few fictions I have watched recently, is “The Children Act,” about a female judge having to decide whether an underage Jehovah’s Witness can be forced to accept blood transfusion to save his life from leukemia. I cried.
“The Wife” was another fiction that took my breath away with its thought-provoking and unpredictable narrative, its acting and humanity and human sufferings it portrays. The production must have started before #MeToo broke out with the cases against Harvey Weinstein – but I do believe things “being in the air.”
I would really like to watch “Won’t you be my Neighbor?” a documentary about Fred Rogers, a.k.a. Mr. Rogers, but I have not seen it in on any playlist on any airlines…I wonder why?