Rabbit Hole: A review

Often when a stageplay is translated into a movie, there are certain nuances and quirks that can't be conveyed. The film has the ability to better explain small details through the use of various scene settings, lighting and production that a stage play doesn't capture. However, the character inflections, the capacity to interact with the stage and the ability for the theater to create a deeper cathartic moment tends to make stage plays more appealing. David Lindsay Abaire's Rabbit Hole won the Pulitzer in 2007. It was turned into a film, that he was able to write, in 2010 featuring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart.

Lecture on Entrepreneurship at GEAR UP



Christopher D. Burns speaking to GEAR UP students
 at Southwest TN College

I have had the pleasure of speaking to a number of groups about entrepreneurship in the last year and a half. The series of lectures that I've done have implemented my six years of small business experience, my instruction of Business Writing at Park University, and the recreation of my own ventures since going through a major failure in 2008. I had the experience this month (June 2011) of speaking with a group of high school students enrolled in the GEAR UP program at Southwest Tennessee College. I was invited by Dr. Young. This is a write up of the lecture. Take a few minutes to check this out and to visit a lecture from the University of Memphis on entrepreneurship.

Untitled for Ji Jaga

In the garden, things grow
nurtured, soil turned, watered.
In time, from the soil, seedlings
breakthrough.
In Time, the grass turns from
brown, to lime, to green to
brown, and weeds crawl through
invasive, creeping slowly,
turning green grass brown
then dying
In Time. A man turns,
ages, learns, becomes
understood and this life
takes time. In 40 years a tree
is still young, still growing.
In Time, a people, oppressed
destroyed, learn to live and fight
for rights, die, reborn, learn to fight
back
against the weeds turning green
to brown.
In Time, short time, people
expect it all to go away.
A President, the athletes, singers,
a people, like weeds, hurting,
contributes to brown
patches.
In a week, I scream Gil-
Geronimo, and realize
we are like grass
In time