In this touching video created by The Chicago Lighthouse, photographer and author Larry Broutman shares his inspiration for creating the children’s book, Chicago Treasure, and what the process taught him about what inclusion truly means. Diverse children take the lead roles in classic fairytales and nursery rhymes when photographs of the kids are digitally imposed with colorful fairytale illustration backgrounds by Rich Green. Local children and their parents explain why seeing their faces in the pages of this book is so meaningful. Interspersed throughout are scenes from the Chicago Treasure Book Launch where 250 Chicagoans came to The Chicago Lighthouse to celebrate the release of this enchanting book.

My first audio tale

Book Trailer for RETURN TO MATEGUAS ISLAND, A TALE OF SUPERNATURAL SUSPENSE

A young woman searching for answers….a man desperately trying to remember what he has forgotten….

Journey with Karen and her family back to the legends, passion, mythos and magic that are Mateguas! Find out what really happened that night of the storm!

Daniel Radcliffe is going to lead in this movie Horns based on the book with the same name.

This is the third movies that I like with horns on the main character. Maleficent is one. Hellboy is the other.

The horns played against the tradition that representing the devil or Satan as the bad guys. 

Horned characters give a little bit more "defiance" against authority, and if it turned out to be not bad, it give us the audience a way to feel good about the supposing bad guys.

As it is Daniel Radcliffe, it is hard not like it. 

Should give a more words than this but I'm being distracted. No one read this anyway but me. So I would wait a bit later for further analysis. 

Maleficent

Love it. Just saw it in 3D today. 

Angelina Jolie is great in her role. She is majestic and magical. A good mix of mischief and tenderness. 

The story is simple and not so simple. The old way of telling of the story made the fairy sounds so petty. Just that you are not invited to a party would not make you mad enough to curse a baby.

This version make much more sense. Yes, she was betrayed. Yes, it is love and trust and letting her guard down that give the chance of betrayal.

WE might have similar experience of betrayal. Okay, maybe not so much of losing of body parts, but close. 

Once you burned, you might not believe in love, of true love.

Is there true love? People betrayed other people so easily. A lot of jerks and bitches do that all the time, especially to the one who love them.

Overall, a lovely story. That I bought the book. This is the color version. The other version is more dark, and probably more adult. 

Love it.