Always in My Heart



Recently I had a dream I was hugging Alondra, aka Ali bear. In that dream I was crying and holding her, knowing I'd never get to bask amidst her presence ever again while on Earth. She passed away one year to the day my dad did when she was just 17-years-old.

I lived and laughed with her and her mom for almost two years from the time she was three to 5-years-old. My recent reading of Hindu wisdom spawned the following... 

Hindu heaven is abundant with love, laughter, foliage, water falls and it's also a world of eternal  peace and harmony.

It's a world where not a single soul is rich or poor, 100 percent equality with no leaders or followers. Ali bear is there right now basking in beauty, with about 5000 more years to live in a youthful and healthy body. She's sad for the rest of us still entrapped in this sphere of madness we all know as Earth.

Sorrow in Hindu Heaven unlike on this planet is not an emotion that attacks the soul. Ali fells our sorrow as she laughs when we have to go to work. Nine to five is not even a bad dream in Hindu Heaven. While she's playing soccer or hugging a friend, we combat fear, corruption and hate much too frequently. Ali wonders why we cry for her when it should be the other way around.

It's selfish of me and others to want her back on Earth where money and lust for power and greed dominate the minds of world leaders and fester down to us common folk who are encased in sophisticated slavery. Our imaginations, creativity and dreams are caged in barely livable wages set forth by big business. In Hindu Heaven, those three things have buried big business for all eternity.

In Ali's current world, the need for matter and money is non existent. No one goes hungry where she is now. Love has pulverized greed in her world. Laughter has decimated death, destruction and war on her piece of the universe. The only drama where Ali is now is in a movie, book or play. No one has enemies or envy in Hindu Heaven. Crime in every form has been swallowed by the innocence of children, passion of intimate lovers and the camaraderie of large or small groups of friends and family. The only bills (payments) in Hindu Heaven are on various birds.

Social media is only informative, entertaining or funny, never hurtful or boring where Ali dwells. The only illness in her world is the remembrance of rap music which should make anyone who truly appreciates music sick to their stomach.

Ali's friends and family who also departed our cosmic chaos only laugh and love in Hindu Heaven. Currently Ali is the only entity in Hindu Heaven who has ever cried. Every time she cries, she thinks of her loved ones still on Earth. How for example they might suffer from the flu, yet have to attend work for the fear of losing their job or making a various bill requirement. How Earthlings mentally suffer for the loss or sickness of another loved one. As we toil away from paycheck to paycheck in our deluded happiness while fussing and fighting with our peers, see laughs when we cry for her.

Three Movies, Three Strike-Outs

 

 

Intense and thrilling subject matter fails to entertain in the movie "The Captive."

A blitzkrieg of boring is the theme of "The Captive" which fails to captivate an ounce of attention.

Despite having a well seasoned cast, this movie is only worth a look if your interested in such things as watering artificial plants or collecting cigarette butts. It's only March, but "The Captive" is in the running for the worst DVD release of the year. (March 3)

The dull tale of this flick starts when the young girl Cassandra is kidnapped from her fathers truck while he leaves her alone sleeping in the truck. The father, Matthew (Ryan Reynolds) leaves to purchase a cherry pie. Internet cops specializing in the seeking and arresting of pedophiles find evidence that Cassondra is still alive. The movie becomes briefly interesting when the father is considered a suspect because of his financial troubles and lawless past. The makers of this movie never ran with this twist and the movie never gets suspenseful despite its intense subject matter.

Cassondra is kept alive by her wicked captors and doesn't seem to mind being cooped up against her will, taken away from her loving and responsible parents or having her freedom stripped away. I gave this movie one star because there were no graphic displays of children suffering, which was the one and only thing the makers of this move got right.

"Ask Me Anything" also released on DVD March 3 is another suck fest.

The makers of this movie managed to use Hollywood heavy weights such as Martin Sheen and Christian Slater to produce a movie less entertaining then buying socks. Maybe the makers of this movie should get some kind of accolades for their ability to make beauty and sex humdrum.

The storyline is flat, despite having the lustful beauty, Britt Robertson whose sexually explosive. Katie (Robertson) fresh out of high school decides not to go to college, work and blog about her sexual exploits which include coitus encounters with married men and a violent boyfriend.



Criminals, teenage frustrations, adultery and mayhem should be a wondrous mixture of enthralling entertainment, yet the movie is nothing more than a napping aide. One star, because the ending was surprising.

"Humbling" is a bumbling barrage of unenlightened movie making.

Even heralded great Al Pacino can't resurrect this movie into something worth watching. Simon Axler (Pacino) is an aging actor who regains a passion for life again when he gets into a relationship with his friends daughter Pegeen Stapleford nicely portrayed by Greta Gerwig. When he's hit the height of happiness, his money starts to dwindle and the worries of Gerwig leaving him fester in his mind. To spice up the plot, another women in Axler's life offers him a lot of cash to kill her husband because he molested their daughter when she was 7-years-old.

All the tangibles for a rich and suspenseful plot are brought to the table in the March 3 DVD release of "Humbling," but this flick is nothing more than an ensemble of awful. O stars for this motion picture show.