Finally had opportunity to watch “A Complete Unknown.” Born in ‘56 I was too young to be part of the world events portrayed yet the music that emerged continues to shape me. “Your old road is rapidly agin.’ Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand for the times they are a-changin'.”

The weight of the world off his shoulders (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

“You will have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide.” (Deathly Hallows or DEI?)

“Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars” (Dr. Martin Luther King, April 3, 1968).

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These are David’s last words: ‘The king who rules with justice, who rules in obedience to God, is like the sun shining on a cloudless dawn’” (2 Samuel 23, Good News Bible).

“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.” (Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium)

Happy new year!

“These are the times that try men’s souls. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” (Thomas Paine)

“While political allegory is the B-plot to ‘Wicked’ the musical, which centers on Glinda and Elphaba’s friendship, it’s the main storyline of Maguire’s book.” I read it not long after seeing the Broadway musical; though not for kids, it is intriguing.

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