Ishmael gave that some thought and said, “I’m afraid I don’t have much sympathy for the ‘healing’ approach to your problems, Julie. You’re not ill. Six billion of you wake up every morning and start devouring the world. This isn’t a sickness that you contracted one night while sitting in a draft. Healing is always a hit-or-miss proposition, I’m sure you know that. Sometimes aspirin fixed the headache and sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes chemotherapy kills the cancer and sometimes it doesn’t. You can’t afford to fool around with ‘healing’ yourselves. You’ve got to start living a different way, and you’ve got to do it very soon.

“Mother Culture’s deception here is that schools exist to serve the needs of people. In fact, they exist to serve the needs of your economy. The schools turn out graduates who can’t live without jobs but who have no job skills, and this suits your economic needs perfectly. What you’re seeing at work in your schools isn’t a system defect, it’s a system requirement, and they meet that requirement with close to one hundred percent efficiency.”

and he explains cakes in a way that makes you love them too.

Of course, I changed the recipe I made, using soft whole wheat flour, and it STILL worked great.

I do wish he explained a few things more thoroughly, like putting the cakes together. And I do have a beef with him in that he is all about having a mixer which I do not have, but hey, I truly appreciated his enthusiasm and totally get it.

one of THE BEST movies.

It helps that it raises questions about what is crazy and what is not (and who is and who is not), and what gets you in the mental ward and what helps you out, etc. I look forward actually to seeing it again because I’m sure I missed so much. LOVED it.

warning—it was slow so just don’t be expecting it not to be slow!

I hadn’t read this but the rest of my family had so I was familiar with the story.

And it was/is a good story. The casting was incredible and the acting was quite good. However, the movie sucked. The effects were cheesy, the movie added superfluous giant bugs & moles. It was a good story painfully told.

This film was so well done. The boxing was realistic but not gross. The setting and life of the depression was fantastically realistic and FELT. And the dream and determination lovely. Excellent flick.

having read the other entries, I’m wondering if the people who didn’t like this flick noticed it was called ASTRONAUT FARMER! And since when has any movie plot been plausible?

Now that that is out of my system, I thought this was a lovely movie. The wife was a little too selfless for my taste but I believe in the dream and yeah I believe this could happen and the landscape was lovely.

I liked it.

She tells nice stories with great humor but I personally find her writing style choppy and her characters sketchy. Very nice though.

She was a big time DC lawyer asked to come back to her hometown to act as receptionist for her country doctor dad, a position with no glamor at all. What she found was that her call to service, that she’d heeded with words in DC was filled with the act of showing up for this real life. She’s got a great honest take on us locals too. LOVED it.

Best quote:
“We were a family famous for being stoic in a community of the most stoic people in the country. It was a source of local pride that soldiers from the mountains of East Tennessee always won more medals in battle and took the highest casualties, both injured and killed, in every war. Courage, or at least poker faces, was our trademark. We never showed vulnerability, never asked for help, never showed any sign of strain. To anybody. Ever.”

Second best quote:
“East Tennesseeans generally tried to avoid making a spectacle, but if somebody else, particularly a Yankee, would give it a go, they couldn’t resist watching, hoping for a foul up.”
(the entire account of the foxhunt is hilarious, particularly the blessing of the hounds)

wonderful.

I also love that you have to be prepared but you can’t have too firm of plans.

marvelous. simply.