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High on summer. Film festing took on a theme as we saw the third film about religion. The films were
Fordson: Faith, Fasting and Football about a football team in mostly Muslim Dearborn, Michigan, training for a playoff game during Ramadan. Next was Salvation Boulevard a goofy satire about mega-church people with a great cast. Friday night we saw Circumstance. In Farsi with subtitles. Beautifully done but personally terrifying. If you could be anywhere in the world, where you don't want to be is a woman in Tehran. Coming back into our driveway after that movie, our sweet cottage and our free lives looked like heaven. Fundamentalism of all stripes is terrifying. The scene of them dubbing Milk into Farsi was good and Farsi hip hop is better because you can't understand the words.
My sisters and I had been wondering for some time whether CNN's Don Lemon was related to the Lemon family in the town where we grew up. His book Transparent answers that question on the first page. I called my sister Colleen and read the page to her and the next page where he mentions the River Queen. I still don't know if he is related to Beulah Lemon who lived on Kentucky Street as we did but across that most definite of lines between white and colored. How can anyone be nostalgic for that time? I like the way the book ended. After years of hard work and being anywhere but Louisiana, he discovers the charm of New Orleans again and buys a lot in the Marigny. Wing just came up to me and said the secret summer passphrase: Get-wet-stay-wet. With the temp edging up toward 90, I know that means swim time. Wing still jumps off the dock to fetch the throw, but we got her a ramp to get back up rather than have her scrambling over the rocks. |