Every year on July 31st we watch the movie “Muriel’s Wedding” starring Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths. This was the movie we watched the night our apartment burned just months after our wedding. This is a movie we enjoy very much because it has a interesting story about a underdog who is just trying to make a name for her self by getting married and being successful, but in the movie Muriel realizes that marriage and success aren’t one and the same.
With all the stuff going on lately this flashback to the 1980’s seems to be appropriate. A lot of conflict is going on that were started by others and have continued through other generations. This song speaks volumes about the world we live in, past and present. It seems more current than ever. Billy Joel has it right with this one.
The events of this week remind us of how each of us are very fragile. We need to be reminded we are very human, very broken, very fragile. This song by Sting tells that story very well.
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