Star Wars. Most of my middle school years were spent waiting for the next Star Wars movie to come out. I have clear memories of the commercials for the movie playing on our tv console in the basement. My dad would see them and tell us all how much he’d like to see that movie. We saw it at the drive-in theater and I was hooked. Time on the school bus was spent watching the other kids collect chewing gum starwars cards (the cool kids had far more than I had). At recess there were always 3 Luke’s, 2 Han Solos, and 5 Princess Leis’s crawling on the jungle gym which was sort of in the shape of a spaceship. It was a perfectly timed distraction for me, my brother and cousins while our moms watched their beloved mom dying of breast cancer.
I liked Grease too because I loved Olivia Newton John’s voice. Who didn’t love crooning to “Hopelessly Devoted to You”?
" I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." Mahatma Gandhi
"This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn't solve any problems." Martin Luther King, Jr.