I loved this movie. My American friend Jill and I saw it together and both of us wished we’d brought our Japanese friends/family members to get their reaction to it. Sure, it’s set in Japan and has that culture at the center of it, but it’s Japan filtered through an American director’s imagination.
This is an amazing story of a great find at a junk store along the side of the road. I’d never heard of this novelist.
“We all know that the press is under siege these days, but we also know that it is the insatiable dedication to uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a blind eye to corruption and to injustice." Watch Oprah Winfrey’s amazing speech at the Golden Globes.
Best moment of the Golden Globes: our future president takes the stage.
“He’s got hours upon hours of audio. Not only that, but the book has already caused legitimate upheaval in the administration, opened a permanent rift between President Trump and Bannon, AND it confirms what we have all always known to be true: that the president severely lacks the cognitive ability to do this job, and that he is surrounded at all times by a cadre of enablers, dunces, and outright thieves. As much as I wanna discredit Wolff, he got receipts and, more important, he used them. Wolff got it all. Wolff nailed them.”
I used to see “WeHo Jesus” walking along Fountain Avenue on my commute home from work. Sad to lose an eccentric character who made our lives a little more bright. He made me smile.
Imagine having one of the worst days of your professional life play out in front of 5 million people.
ABC News anchor Dan Harris doesn’t have to. In 2004, he had a panic attack on live TV after years of working in war zones and using drugs to cope with the stress. But that mortifying moment led him to take up meditation.
He wrote a book about it, 10% Happier: How I Tamed The Voice In My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, And Found Self-Help That Actually Works — A True Story, in which he mentioned the research that suggests meditation can lower blood pressure, help with depression and increase awareness. The book sold well, but Harris still thought its impact fell short.
“In that first book I made this naive assumption that — I didn’t think anybody would read it — but anybody who did read it would want to meditate and would meditate,” Harris says. “And it was pretty quickly after the book was out that I realized that that [was] not true. It’s just complete underestimation of how hard it is for us to create healthy habits.”
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Just heard this interview from earlier in 2017 re-broadcast on BBC World Service. Thanks for your work, DLB.
