Decades ago, before space travel and technology flooded the American film scene, motion pictures about the Old West often included trains. The peak of tension in such action-adventure movies occurred when a train wreck looked inevitable because some bad guys had taken out the conductor. This left the locomotive with no one to control it …
Some old Disney movies contain surprising lessons. One in particular comes to mind. The evil queen in Snow White exhibited an overbearing personality that belied her lack of self-confidence. Maleficent depended on a magic mirror to stroke her ego, requiring perpetual updates to support her sense of self-importance. Each morning she approached the looking glass …
Sometimes . . . OK, often, I get caught up with “doing things right” or following rules I make for myself. Just the other day I caught myself once again getting up in arms about “the principle” of a thing. As intermediary in someone else’s financial conflict, I was wrestling with the other party’s unjust …
