Archive for the 'Movies' Category

How not to deal with automated customer service

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Did you see the movie, Hey, Dude, Where’s My Car? There is a scene where the two guys pull up to a drive-through window at a fast food place. They order a lot of food with trimmings. When they are finished, the automated voice who takes their order, regardless of what they say, continues to say: (more…)

Posted by Gloria on July 11th, 2010 under these topics
Movies, computers, Forgiveness, Purely Personal, Godwriting Journal
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God’s way of saying things

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

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I saw a movie I liked a lot, Amal. 

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Posted by Gloria on July 4th, 2010 under these topics
Food, Movies, Heaven Letters, Godwriting Journal
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The Mona Lisa Smile

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

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The Mona Lisa Smile came out in 2003. There is a specific Heavenletter-reason why I am writing a blog about this movie. (more…)

Posted by Gloria on April 25th, 2010 under these topics
Movies, Personal Development, Forgiveness, Godwriting Journal
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

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This was a rich uplifting movie of a true story.  The main character, Jean-Dominique Bauby,  was the editor in chief of Elle Magazine in France. He was a man about a town. He had had a mistress with whom he had two or three children but didn’t choose to marry or to live with. (more…)

Posted by Gloria on February 22nd, 2010 under these topics
Book Review, Movies, Godwriting Journal
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When do we let bygones be bygones?

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

I have talked about The Education of Little Tree. It is a fine compassionate book. I regard this book highly. All book reviewers regarded this book highly. It is one of my all-time favorite books. The movie too.

The book was taken off book lists (more…)

Posted by Gloria on January 23rd, 2010 under these topics
Book Review, Movies, Education, Godwriting Journal
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The questions I asked

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

My questions I asked at the meeting I went to the other night were about love.

First I asked: Do our souls, as well as our individuality, also long for love? (more…)

Posted by Gloria on January 22nd, 2010 under these topics
Movies, Personal Development, Forgiveness, Godwriting Journal
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One more great movie

Monday, January 11th, 2010

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Heaven Admin sure knows some great movies. (more…)

Posted by Gloria on January 11th, 2010 under these topics
Movies, Godwriting Journal
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Big Fish

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

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New Year’s Eve Heaven Admin picked out a DVD for me. Although now I learn that it had been nominated for lots of academy awards, I had never even heard of this movie before Heaven Admin showed it to me. It is a very special movie, and it was wonderful. (more…)

Posted by Gloria on January 2nd, 2010 under these topics
Movies, Godwriting Journal
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Heroes and Value Clarification

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Last night Heaven Admin rented a movie called Flash of Genius.

The movie opens with the main character, Bob Kearns, a college professor, played superbly by Greg Kinnear, telling his engineering class that there is much more to engineering than the engineering itself. There is the importance of ethics. He gave as an example the service to mankind in the engineering of a pacemaker and the disservice to mankind in the engineering of the gas chambers. (more…)

Posted by Gloria on December 13th, 2009 under these topics
Movies, Personal Development, Godwriting Journal
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The Life O’ Puppies at Noah’s Ark

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Lazlo and Linus from Noah’s Ark

Here are Laszlo and Linus taking an afternoon snooze in their water bowl. These lucky pups will be transported to Wisconsin from Iowa on the Rescue Waggin on Sunday.

Iowa has more (more…)

Posted by Gloria on May 9th, 2009 under these topics
Pets, Movies, Godwriting Journal
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