Monday Musings: April 26, 2010

Another cold and rainy weekend discouraged me from working outside in my yard. I'm going to have a jungle by the time anything is able to get done.

However I did get a lot of other things done- somewhat.

Like shopping for my daughter's birthday. The first of a manic month of birthdays and events in May. My two youngest children have May birthdays as does my husband plus there's Mother's day...and this year my oldest is a senior so we have prom, pre-graduation meetings and events and we're planning for graduation and an open house. Wow. That's a lot to do added in with everything else I have to do on a day to day basis.

After a long day of shopping, cooking and cleaning my family relaxed while watching Avatar.

Wow, now I see what the big deal is about the movie. The visuals were stunning and the story- touching. I seen the Na'vi as a sci-fi version of the Native Americans and a conglomerate of other native and indigenous tribes around the world that have been destroyed and taken advantage of by people who felt they were entitled to take whatever they wanted and who gives a shit about the "savages".

Did you know that The Pope (way back in the day) actually said that the Native Americans (known as Indians back then) were not human, they were nothing but savages, less than human beings so that it was alright to kill them? I believe that much, much later the Catholic Church and a later Pope recanted that statement and apologized. I think it was too little too late considering most of the tribes of indigenous North Americans were all but wiped out.

Then in Avatar there was the whole "fight terror with terror speach given by asshole GI Joe (whatever his name was). Really? The Na'vi were defending their home.

Anyway that's my take on Avatar.

So now I am off to try and squeeze some work in before getting into more party planning activities.

There will be lots going on this week at Fang-tastic Books, it's a full week of authors and giveaways including: Arianna Skye, Teresa D'Amario, Belinda McBride, Charisma Knight and Sapphire Phelan.