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Category: Movies

Marianne & Leonard: reflecting our vulnerable ignorance
Movies

Marianne & Leonard: reflecting our vulnerable ignorance

Posted on October 14, 2019October 14, 2019 by Sande Ramage

The movie Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love drew me in, twice. An engrossing but discomforting movie that highlights Cohen’s hurtful behaviour towards his muse and lover, Marianne Ihlen and her apparent willingness to be walked over like a beautiful…

Rocketman: reinventing redemption
Faith

Rocketman: reinventing redemption

Posted on July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 by Sande Ramage

Elton John’s moment of redemption arrives in Rocketman when he wraps his younger, abandoned and fragile self in a loving embrace. Integration of a fragmented human is underway. Or put another way, the Self, the God within us is on…

Creativity: wild, mysterious & perhaps divine
Creative Arts

Creativity: wild, mysterious & perhaps divine

Posted on June 3, 2019June 4, 2019 by Sande Ramage

I fell for Frida Kahlo in an instant. It was the tango that did it as Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd strutted, stamped and slid across the floor and each others bodies in two minutes of intense passion. Knowing this…

Waru the movie: questioning patriarchy?
Compassion

Waru the movie: questioning patriarchy?

Posted on December 29, 2017January 22, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Waru is powerful and uncomfortable. Eight stories all linked by the death of a boy. On the surface it’s about child abuse, confirmed by the co-producer Kerry Warkia who said the project was, ‘born out of heartache, love and passion to…

Reflection on Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms
Books

Reflection on Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms

Posted on December 6, 2015January 30, 2018 by Sande Ramage

I didn’t expect to find myself humming the old hymn Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise at the launch of Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms. But, as I listened to Rohana Ulluwishewa talk about our inner and outer realities…

Anna the void and her imprint
God

Anna the void and her imprint

Posted on August 9, 2015February 4, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Crying into my muesli was familiar territory in the days when hormones were more rampant, usually activated by the loss of some love or a response to the all-encompassing despair that used to dog my footsteps. The loves are gone…

Easter contradictions with Ms Monroe
Creative Arts

Easter contradictions with Ms Monroe

Posted on March 23, 2012February 6, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Michelle Williams is tantalizing in the movie, My Week with Marilyn. She ensures Ms Monroe is present, a disarming combination of innocent child and sensual siren. It’s not the sleek exterior that seduces; it’s the contradictions that open us up.…

  • Spirituality is about the experience, at the core of one’s being, of truth, power, and desire. It is the energy within persons that shape a person’s actions and ultimately a person’s life into a meaningful whole. Galilee Retreat Centre, Ottawa, 2016
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