I remember when I was twelve walking into dad’s office and looking at your empty wooden desk. You had sat there for hours during high school, on social media, editing films or recording music for your band. Now the desk stood bare; its owner hundreds of miles away, interning in New York. I still remember … Continue reading 6 Life Lessons I Learned from my Older Brother
This past weekend, on my flight back from California, I finally got the chance to watch The Greatest Showman. I was expecting a movie that celebrated differences and glorified the circus as one of man’s great endeavors of acceptance. (Which, historically, the circus wasn’t) Oddly enough, the movie didn’t effectually sell the idea that P.T. Barnum … Continue reading The Greatest Showman – It’s Not About the Circus
Death seeps from Te Kā, staining the seas as it sucks the life from the islands and attracts monsters. This hot-headed, destructive volcano struck me. I’d seen her before.
Continue reading Moana: The Power of Their Identities
Maui is a stereotypical twenty-first-century male…Maui to journey with her on the mission to restore the heart of the island Goddess. Continue reading Moana: His Identity
Little did I anticipate that this movie would provide a metaphor for my mission as a Catholic woman in our modern-day culture of use, selfishness, and death. Continue reading Moana: Her Identity
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