A FILM SUGGESTION BY BROTHER DAVID:

Dear Friends,

There is a film I like to look at every year around Hiroshima Day:

Rhapsody in August by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.

How would I characterize this film? It is endearing, or better: “winning”.

A winning story about the epitome of lose/lose – atomic warfare!

That’s its greatness.

Kurosawa wanted his film to say that war was between governments, not people.

He accomplished this with a light touch and great depth.

Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb, wrote in his log:

“My God, what have we done!”

I do hope Rhapsody in August will make you say:

“What good we will be able to do, once we learn the lesson behind Hiroshima!”

With a deep bow of gratitude for Akira Kurosawa’s message of peace,

Your brother David

​PS: you can find the trailer here ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=342LbwLJh5w

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The Diary of Anne Frank
War and Peace
El Quijote
The adventures of Tintin 
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
To Kill a Mockingbird
Karen Cushman’s The Midwife’s Apprentice s
Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time
William Steig picture books: Shrek, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Brave Irene, Solomon the Rusty Nail
Walden Pond
Travels with Charlie
the Universal Christ  
The House at Pooh Corner 
Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book)
From Normal to Healthy: Paths to the Liberation of Consciousness by Georg Kühlewind
How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation by Rudolf Steiner
Awareness by Anthony de Mello
The Tao of Physics: An exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
To the Actor by Michael Chekhov
The Isenheim Altarpiece: History – Interpretation – Background by Michael Schubert
Celtic Woman: A Memoir of Life’s Poetic Journey by Treasa O’Driscoll  
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran  
Full Catastrophe Living by John Kabat Zinn 
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle 
The Endorphin Effect by William Bloom 
Falling in Love with Where You Are by Jeff Foster
Every Day Spirit, a Daybook of Wisdom, Joy and Peace by Mary Davis
The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry 
Dietrich Bonhoeffer  The Cost of Discipleship
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
Path of Light by Robert Perry
A Course in Miracles
Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
The Book of Five Rings by Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi  
The Book of Common Prayer
The Bible 
Fr. Greg Boyle’s Tattoos  
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
The Magic by Rhonda Byrne
   
The works of: 
Maya Angelou
James Baldwin
Walt Whitman 
Robert Frost
Mary Oliver
Richard Rohr
Thomas Merton
Dale Carnegie  
Paul Auster
Richard Ford
Margaret Attwood
Barry Callaghan
Colson Whitehead
John O’Donohue
David Whyte
Parker Palmer
C.S. Lewis 
Rumi
Rilke 
Madeleine L’Engle
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Brown Taylor    

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19th Century English, French and Russian classics