A Good Weekend

I love to watch movies. Going to the movie theater has been a common family activity for us. It is no wonder that I have a son who will graduate as a cinema major in June. He watches tons of movies and when I talk with him about movies he has looked at them from angles I never would have considered.

I used to believe I liked to watch movies because of their messages but that isn't really true. Most of my life is spent producing something. When I am at home, I am working on taxes, cooking dinner, doing laundry, etc. I can watch a movie at home but I won't fully watch it. I will be doing a crossword or baking cookies or something else that takes part of my attention.

But when I go to a movie theater and the lights go off I can only engage what is happening on the screen. It is a place of complete escape. For two hours I am unreachable and fully engaged in only one thing -- someone else's life.

For me a good weekend includes a movie in a theater and Asian food. Yesterday, after I finished getting my tax information ready for our accountant, that was my reward. We went to Arclight and then celebrated with crab wontons and lo mein. Life is good.