Two Onion-Slicing Ninjas

Marriage story

It was only later that I found out Noah Baumbach also directed Kicking and Screaming, a life-long favorite about the post-college dilemma. It's been about 23 or 24 years since I first saw it. It's still in my head. Noah Baumbach's themes has of course evolved, to the ever-evolving concepts of family, marriage, fatherhood and motherhood. The tears though, seem like a constant. A while back, I saw While We're Young and that one was really funny. I am thankful for Noah Baumbach because these movies are conducive for life-affirmation. The time you spend with children is the ultimate catch-all, an infallible justification of why you live and why you love.

There were so much tears in this movie. And I watched it with D., even more thankful that our own marriage didn't need to have any.

The Two Popes

Hannibal is Pope Benedict and the High Sparrow is Pope Francis.

It is our fortune to have lived at the same time as Pope Francis. We are certain that his papacy will be scrutinized in the future. It might take another 700 years for a pope to abdicate. But perhaps, from here on out there will be more who are as humble, as left-leaning, and as human as many of us who like pizza, football and fanta.

D. and I cried almost half the time while watching this movie. We were crying about how happy we are to have witnessed positive change.

We will certainly cry more, but it won't always be tears of sorrow.