It is easy to despair these days. So may people in the headlines pursuing their worst instincts while the rest of us are trying to do our best. But, power corrupts. Even the semblance of power seems to inspire the worst in people. The world has seemed to have gone mad with power, but one must realize that only a small fraction of a percentage is responsible for the bad things that happen in the world.
Still, the headlines keep coming and one wants to just not care.
But, it is not this day.
And so, because I need it, and because you need it, how about a little pep talk?
This one, from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final installment of his monumental undertaking of adapting J.R.R.Tolkien's beloved three-book series. May it inspire you...one day at a time.
And...on this Memorial Day, when we remember our ancestors who also marched potentially into the teeth of Death, maybe we should take some action, too, behind the comfort of our word processors.
Change is inevitable...despite so many's attempts to stop it. Today, be an instrument of change. Write your congressman. Write your Senator. Better yet, write somebody else's congressman and Senator. Your voice is not being heard above the din. Make them hear it. Inundate them with it. Crowd it out so they don't hear the ch-ching of lobbyists and the cooing of sycophants. Become the priority in their minds over their bank accounts and the next rung up the ladder. We're long past thoughts and prayers. Time to do something about it. Less time on our knees; more time on our feet.
Then, maybe we won't wake up to another school shooting...or any kind of shooting. Another right taken away. It may be bad tomorrow.
But, it is not this day.
The Set-Up: While Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) and Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin) take "the one ring" to Mordor's Mt. Doom to dispose of it, Aragorn Ellessor (Viggo Mortensen) and his forces arrive at the Black Gate of Mordor to give them more time only to find themselves outmatched and death certain. But, the distraction must be made, here, at the very gates of the enemy.
Action!
DAY
ANGLE ON: The MASSIVE ORC ARMY marching towards ARAGORN'S
MEN.
ARAGORN GALLOPS in front of his ARMY . . .
ANGLE ON: ARAGORN . . . he seems to fix each and everyone of
his MEN with his eyes.
ARAGORN holds ANDURIL ALOFT!
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is available on DVD and Blu-Ray on New Line Home Entertainment.
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