thing #14

re thing #14: see an art film or documentary ...

The medical center campus offers fairly regulary presentations to employees and staff about different topics on diversity. This time around it was a showing of the 75 minute documentary The Beauty Academy of Kabul. Wow.

The strength that it takes an Afghan woman (or any of our middle eastern sisters, for that matter) just to be is phenomenal. Getting from one end of the day to the other is no simple task, and certainly not to be taken for granted. It goes without saying that I'm very glad to be living where I am living.

Parts of the film were warm and humorous... and other parts weighty and heart-wrenching. The film is an amazing reminder of the resiliency of the human spirit...