Comments on: My Brother Bennie http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/my-brother-bennie.htm Listening to The Voice Within Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:06:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Charles Fines http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/my-brother-bennie.htm#comment-35986 Charles Fines Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:33:56 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/my-brother-bennie.htm#comment-35986 According to conventional wisdom one of the pains to endure in life was when people would show you home movies or slide shows of trips or vacations or family events. I guess now it would be videos. I usually enjoyed these, never understood why other people didn't. Maybe because I preferred it to making small talk with people in a social setting. Anyway, Gloria, your "home movies" are always of great interest to me, always produce an emotional reaction as if it were my own family. Probably even more than my own family. According to conventional wisdom one of the pains to endure in life was when people would show you home movies or slide shows of trips or vacations or family events. I guess now it would be videos.

I usually enjoyed these, never understood why other people didn’t. Maybe because I preferred it to making small talk with people in a social setting. Anyway, Gloria, your “home movies” are always of great interest to me, always produce an emotional reaction as if it were my own family. Probably even more than my own family.

]]> By: Pam (fortheloveofGodde) http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/my-brother-bennie.htm#comment-35985 Pam (fortheloveofGodde) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:16:04 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/my-brother-bennie.htm#comment-35985 You say it's like telling us about an old movie. Such a perfect metaphor. Remember the old 8-mm movies? The 8- or 10-minute-a-reel home movies ... it's like that, isn't it? An 8- or 10-minute memory comes up and plays in your mind, maybe making you laugh or cry in the moment, yet not leaving any lasting feelings of joy or sadness. I wonder when that begins? Until you said it like that, I never realized or felt the transition from when grief passes and the "movie reels" begin. You say it’s like telling us about an old movie. Such a perfect metaphor. Remember the old 8-mm movies? The 8- or 10-minute-a-reel home movies … it’s like that, isn’t it? An 8- or 10-minute memory comes up and plays in your mind, maybe making you laugh or cry in the moment, yet not leaving any lasting feelings of joy or sadness. I wonder when that begins? Until you said it like that, I never realized or felt the transition from when grief passes and the “movie reels” begin.

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