What we are watching in APLit today--

UP, and trying to get my brain in gear. Still coughing, so interrupted sleep. This too shall pass, though. 

It's dark out, and I know I'll have some clearing of heavy wet snow off my car to do. Yay, Monday. 

That said, my APLit kids will be watching the original version of The Manchurian Candidate today; this ought to be interesting. It's a deeply unsettling film, and it seems weirdly prescient in our current times. I don't know if the kids will pick up on it, but it's there, all the same. The news gets deeper and deeper into dystopian threads lately; there's plenty of fodder for conspiracy theorists to go around. But just because it feels like we are living in a movie doesn't mean that a lot of it isn't true. Which is, to be honest, deeply terrifying. For those of us who read history, who have delved deeply into literature, who are thinking humans, we are living, as they say, in "interesting times." 

I didn't want to be. 

But here we are.

I hope your Monday is gentle on you. Gather your loved ones close.

C



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