Ageless in Spirit: Discussions and interests for our times

 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

 April 18, 2021 Giving the benefit of the doubt is a recent thought that I think deserves some study. In the news are continued reports of mass shootings across the nation with assault weapons mentioned. Police killings continue at an alarming rate with rioting and demonstrations occurring. Recently teenage black victims are some of the victims. Today I read an article of how the police were assaulting reporters covering these events with one report of the reporter since he was black he was viciously assaulted by police until some of his fellow reporters vouched for him. The George Floyd trial has been interesting in a good way to follow since many of his fellow police officers broke ranks and testified against Chauvin's policing calling it murder. The officer who allegedly mistook her gun for a taser killing a black person at a routine stop makes giving the benefit of the doubt in these times hard to swallow for me. Malpractice cases in my profession comes to mind so that if I ad