Letters

"You wrote "It would be wonderful to want to believe in God. The aimlessness of living is too insane." That is the creative artist—a penalty of the creative artist—wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us plain people just accept disorder (if we even recognize it) and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we're lucky."

I love this passage from a letter written by Ursula Nordstrom to the incredible Maurice Sendak.

Letters are so so precious. 

I'm back from Myanmar and will write about it soon so stay tuned!

Loving Annabelle

When I was an undergraduate, I loved going to the University library to borrow films, just because. And I really miss that. So I have been trying to watch a film a week.

Just caught a really beautiful and tragic film, "Loving Annabelle". It may be a little clumsy but I love the simple, straight-forward story-telling. Love is love, whatever the form. A tale of forbidden love set in a rigid Catholic boarding school where nothing that is not black and white is ever accepted. In comes the outwardly rebellious daughter of a senator, who later proves herself to be a gentle and sensitive soul. Her presence disrupts the orderly ways of the school and breaks down her poetry teacher's pretense to normalcy. 

What I liked is the the film never victimises either character. While both are powerless to the attraction of the other, they are both complicit participants.

"What you call sin, I call the great spirit of love, which takes a thousand forms"
-From Madchen in Uniform, the German film that it was based on.