Learning Life's Lessons...even from the really bad movies, like....

I lived for a few years in Hollywood. Loved it. Had an apartment across from Capital Records for a while and then one where I could look off my balcony and see the Hollywood sign.

Hollywood is all about Hype, but this one movie completely took me by surprise this summer, I had NO desire to see it, but did so to appease the most glorious eight year old and the most glorious three year old on the planet....

In fact, the movie speaks a lot to what Dien is working to accomplish here at SowPub, to make
a difference in a sometimes overly jaded world....

"Just forget it. There's a one in a million chance we will EVER get
out of this place!" Thus speaks the voice of conventional wisdom.

"Then we still have a chance" speaks inspiration from the depth of
one soul.

The speaking soul is Ginger: a most surprising hero in the form of
the lead Chicken in the movie "Chicken Run". Ginger had a vision.
Every chicken in her coop would be freed. Safe from the possibility
of slaughter. Not have to be worried about producing mass
quantities of eggs. Not have to stay within the realms of their
fenced in, dirt floored existence. Her vision was for the entire
community. Not just herself. Every chicken.

Her goal appeared impossible. Larger than life. Her previous
attempts were valiant. At times inspired. Nonetheless, they
remained unsuccessful. Stacks of errors in seas of trials. To the
average thinker the conventional wisdom rang true.

Thankfully, Ginger held fast to her vision. Just as many
inspirational leaders before her she drew people to her cause. Her
fellow "cellmates" aligned themselves with her cause by using their
giftedness. Together, they crafted a future that at one time
seemed nothing more than a pipedream of an "unreasonable"
leader.

Robert Anson Heinlein, author of Stranger in a Strange Land
reminds us of Ginger's lesson in stating "The reasonable man
adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man." Continuing to approach the
world from the perspective of an unreasonable person requires
having the courage to go against the flow of convention.

Ginger could simply think no other way than directly from her soul. Not at all from a cookie cutter.

For Ginger, as long as there was any flicker of hope no matter how
dim, there was still a reason to continue to seek the solution. Even
with the odds at a million to one, the one was still there calling
her name.

Inspirational wisdom brought out the collective genius in the
chicken coop. Conventional wisdom sought to squelch it.

What brand of wisdom do you listen to most often? Are you
allowing yourself to settle for second rate repeatedly? Or are
you hearing the call of inspirational wisdom?

Is your answer a resounding "Yes!"?

Ginger, like French Playwright Jean Anouilh, knew what it meant
"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and
plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no,
even if it means dying."

Say Yes. Its a one in a million chance. Yes!

Ahhhh, gotta love that Ginger!

> Where's Steve McQueen of today, Leonardo? I
> don't think so...

*****Me Neither! Excellent question, one I will ponder. Personally, I am rather impressed with Heath Ledger, who played Gabriel in "The Patriot".

Oh, and about those adorable kids, here is one of them....she is still talking about Ginger....




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