
April 27, 2021 Stories of fiction provide me with a source of riches to reflect on our human condition. The other night we watch The Sound of Metal an Amazon Prime film which also won best sound and film editing oscar rewards and was in the nominationations for best film. In the movie we visit with a couple that are on the road in an airstream having gigs for their heavy metal music in smaller towns. The lead drummer suddenly becomes deaf closing himself off from playing. His girlfriend of four years and he have developed a love and loyalty to each other with both thankful to each other for creating opportunities for love, companionship, and work for the past four years. For the four years he's clean and sober with a sponsor in the background from a serious heroin addiction. His sobriety is in jeopardy now with the stress of his hearing loss so he first gets better diagnosed and he offered a cochlear implant procedure for many tens of thousands of dollars as a procedure to restore...