Seraphic Secret

Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

Someone To Watch Over Me in 2015

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As we said yesterday, Seraphic Secret aspires to optimism. And so, on this first day of 2015, we are not posting about the latest outrage anywhere in the world. We're not even writing about Hollywood's Golden Age. Instead, we're posting this photo of Lielle Meital watching over her infant sister Livia Yarden.
As we said yesterday, Seraphic Secret aspires to optimism. Not an easy task when reality suggests the opposite world view. And so, on this first day of 2015, we are not posting about the latest outrage somewhere in the world. We’re not even writing about Hollywood’s Golden Age. Instead, we’re posting this photo of Lielle Meital watching over her infant sister Livia Yarden. It’s an ordinary snapshot of an ordinary moment that suggests extraordinary joy and hope.

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  4. There is no way other than mild pleasures of the moment that any thoughtful person can hold an optimistic view in our increasingly irrational world and irrelevant place on the world stage. My wish and hope for the New Year: America makes a comeback.

      • To world leadership and if required, domination. In other words, the social and political place we held during the Eisenhower years, and at the very least, the hope for that during the Reagan era. America, first and foremost, for law abiding Americans.

        • So, while watching a repeat of the decline and fall of the empire with the enemy at the gates, you’re wishing for a magical return to the empire illogically derived from the republic that hasn’t existed since Hamilton took it apart, entirely forgetting how the Constitution itself made it happen? Historically hysterical.

            • You can and I wish for the same.

              But if we can’t have that, then at the very least, can we stop importing Muslims? And deport Muslim non-citizens?

                • It has everything to do with his wish. He wishes for some hypothetical stability while ignoring how Ike personally worked to shut down McCarthy’s investigations that suppressed revealing the extent Soviet Communists had infiltrated from the time since before FDR and ongoing. Ike was devoted to the military-industrial complex that he so famously spoke against. That speech was a misdirection. Why do you think he built up the military and built the Interstate Highway System? Your wishful hero worship is misplaced by ill or incomplete information.

              • Larry, your screed has nothing to do with Barry’s wish, which is about how life in this country felt then.

                [This is actually a reply to your latter comment, but the box became too thin and small to see. It’s a flaw in this webpage design, I think.]

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