Dim Sum Mum - Tess' Little Pieces

Qǐng jiāo - coke please!

Coke for me please!

I thought yesterday's "America the beautiful" commercial from Coke was fantastic. Not as cute as the little golden Budweiser, but still a great commerical. Anything with great voices usually "gets" me.

But a loud minority are not impressed that the commerical was sung in a language other than English.

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was a little person, on Saturday mornings we watched commericals. School House Rock taught us a noun is a person place or thing, that "Im just a bill on capital hill" and that the USA is "The great American Melting Pot"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32l3sTFRFX8

What is the problem of a nation build of a myriad of cultures exulting the glories of the country in their Mother Tongue? This is like.....Christ upset that I sing in English rather than Hebrew or Arabic?

It's a great commercial showing a beautiful country

and people.

So let's watch it again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Talented Mr Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman's death from apparent heroin overdose is a reminder of the long memory of addiction.

It clenches you tight in a fist. When you see people who have succumbed to addiction, be reminded that  they fought it as long as they could. Philip Seymour Hoffman certainly did, heading to rehab just a few years ago to face his demons head on. But addiction is hard to deter. Relentless. And finally, a slip, like all humans face whatever their demons - and Mr Hoffman was silenced far too soon.
We all have our demons. Some are obvious, some are not.

Seb is learning about his demons and trying to come to a desire to fight them. Anxiety, self confidence, turning to others before examining ourselves. I would love to rush the process to save him future agony, but I cannot. I can try to equip him for the journey, with people to talk with, medication and Ephesians 6:11: "Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes"

Life is a hard journey. We all have our demons, our failures, our triumphs.

Your journey is tough and bewildering, but the people you meet on the way enhance, equip and empower you.

Life is worth the battle.