Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Yesterday I walked all over town.  I was exhausted by late afternoon, but revived when my husband and I met our friends at the neighborhood theater and saw "Amazing Grace".  Talk about being energized!  The film is of the two nights Aretha Franklin sang gospel with her childhood friend, a Baptist minister and his choir.  The film is poorly done.  Warner Brothers had hired Sydney Pollack to do the filming, because they wanted to release the film with the album, but I'm guessing Pollack was high or otherwise engaged.  But it doesn't matter.  The music lifts and carries you.  You see this legendary force give every cell in her body and mind with every song.  She is witnessing.  Her father is there and gives a little speech.  The Rolling Stones are there.  Everybody who made it to the two performances has been grateful ever since, I'm certain.  But you come away knowing you've witnessed a gift so profound and sublime that your cells tingle.  She didn't want this film released, and her family released it only after her death last year.  But she does it proud, and when you see it, you are never going to forget it.