2003
A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
80 min
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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
How can we build community? Where do we begin? Kathy Coffey, executive director of Leadership Snohomish County, has found community in places as conventional as a church and as unorthodox as a mafia bar.
According to Yasuhiku Genku Kimura Buddhist teachings: "Passion is not something we have, it's who we are as a cosmic destiny." When we are being our passion we are enlivened and attract a community who shares our vision.