HAMILTON: Why Infidelity & What Can Turn It Around?

Hamilton: Lessons On Infidelity

What does “I’m not throwing away my shot” have to do with infidelity in marriage? You’d be surprised. There’s a lesson in it, to be sure. Lin Manuel Miranda’s Tony-award-winning musical Hamilton holds many lessons on infidelity. To start, we need power, over the past and old hungers. If you’ve had a painful past, the after-effects…

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1917
The Trauma Of War
How Love & Friendship Matter

1917: Trauma of War How Love and Friendship Matter

We see the trauma. And, we witness the friendship and love. I’m talking about Sam Mendes’s more-than-war film, 1917. I’m also talking about a different kind of war that all of us are fighting now. A war with an invisible virus. COVID-19. And, just as in 1917, it’s love for each other; our fellow warriors…

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THE IRISHMAN
What Makes A Man Not Feel?

The Irishman: What Makes A Man Not Feel?

Does Frank Sheeran really have no conscience? How can a man kill with no compunction –  and not feel anything? In Martin Scorsese’s engagingly (and not too long), fictionalized film, The Irishman, we watch Frank as he moves up the ladder of The International Brotherhood of Teamsters. With just a little help from his friends.…

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