The House That Pat Built is technically supposed to be finished today! Instead I have a nail-biting meeting with the station management to find out the future of the documentary. I was so dreading this encounter because I had it "ugly" in my head. I thought it would be thrown into a vault stamped FAILURE! The meeting turned out to be a great solution to my lack of technical sophistication on this project. I hope I haven't thrown Pat and Family under the bus. It sounds like the entire show will need to be re-shot, but it should be showable when finished. What a relief and great solution. Starting to look at more solutions to making up for missing the first month of classes. The lack of catching up is catching up now.
I had an epiphany that I shared with Dennis about my conflict with the prominence of social justice in higher education. I am not against helping people. Good grief, Dennis is living on disability income supplied by the federal government. I just have issues with the way all things have to lead to social justice and people are not responsible for helping themselves. My Bible study of late has also addressed social justice and Jesus' admonition to care for the widows and orphans. Then it hit me....Jesus and his twelve only lived in common for 3 years. They shared everything for a time and then it ended. Widows were expected to marry again, or the husband's family was to care for them or they could find a way to support themselves. The goodwill didn't extend forever. Orphans grow up. Most adults don't introduce themselves as "Hi I'm Bob, an orphan". Orphans need help as children but they don't need hand outs as adults. Social justice and assistance is temporal....until the recipient can regroup, get back on their feet...sort things out. Pretty much the same as the grace I've been shown this semester by all my profs. Time was given to figure things out, to adjust to the new normal, to get my head screwed back on... but that time has passed and now it's time to get it together. That's the goal for the weekend, make some progress.
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