…the women find their injured heroes and go about their business.

… we root for social ascent that comes out of love or chance and not from calculated elevation.

It is Cuff who introduces us to humming as another sort of reflecting.

Russian gentlemen who survived the war seem more flexible, practical, kinder…

We are seduced by her artistry at many levels…

…parts of him are still 12 and others were already 50 when he was 12.

But as each copes with the tragedy, we are caught unaware.

Something seems off but where.

To weigh one’s life against the checklist of high culture…

…Steinbeck’s optimism shattered when he visited New Orleans and saw bigotry firsthand.

We then miss her boldness as emerging during the Dust Bowl, as a surprise, even to herself.

Dumbo, premised on this wonderful notion that difference can be magical…

Her take is modern.

The formula works!

Children crayon a truncated family.

Caught off guard, we hurriedly make up for our equivocation.

We reckon with two visions of freedom.

They are neither noble nor magisterial, neither preachers nor reformers.

…Penny puts her faith in Rosa (the duck), poems, and choices towards good.

…sings of their shadows and of her own truths of womanhood in her beautiful Blues voice.