A Personal Retrospective
I feel so lucky to be over 50. It is a great time to look back and acknowledge the places, the music, the movies, and the books that have shaped my life experience so far. Each list is in the order of my life experience. What would be on your retrospective?
Puff The Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul & Mary, 1962
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - George Harrison, 1968
Shayla - Blondie, 1979
Pressure - David Bowie & Queen, 1981
Kip's Light - English Patient, 1996
A Song of Simplicity - Elijah Bossenbroek, 2009
Written In the Stars - Tinie Tempeh, 2009
Paradise - Coldplay, Piano Guys, Alex Boye, 2011
In Reverence - David Tolk, 2013
Thunderstruck - Two Cellos, 2014
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand, 1957
A Once and Future King - T. H. White, 1958
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle, 1962
Anatomy of the Spirit - Carolyn Myss, 1996
Good to Great - Jim Collins, 2001
Fierce Conversations, Susan Scott, 2001
I Know This Much To Be True - Wally Lamb, 2008
All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr, 2014
A Velocity of Being - Maria, Popova editor , 2018
The Turning Point - Herbert Ross, 1977
The English Patient - Anthony Minghella, 1996
Brokedown Palace - Jonathan Kaplan, 1999
Pay It Forward - Mimi Kedar, 2000
Crash, Paul Haggis - 2004
Troy - Wolfgang Peterson - 2004
The Holiday - Nancy Meyers, 2006
Lions For Lambs - Robert Redford, 2007
Third Person - Paul Haggis, 2013
Life Itself - Dan Fogelman, 2018
Data ->Information -> Knowledge ->Understanding -> Wisdom - Russell Ackoff
How Great Leadership Inspire Action - Simon Sinek
David Bowie BBC Interview - EPIC David Bowie!
Alone Together - Sherry Turkle
The Five Filters of Mass Media - Noam Chomsky
Drive - The Surprising Truth About Motivation - Daniel Pink
Life At The Frontier - David Whyte
Why You Will Marry The Wrong Person - Alain de Botton
Barnard College Commencement - Meryl Streep
Opening Narration 2021 Sundance Film Festival - Robert Redford
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I hope these locations, books, films and ideas are inspiring. I have been carried very well by the emotion, inspiration and education that lie within.
Let's have a grand adventure . . .
Jennifer
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2 年What a meaningful list, collected over a wonderful life ??