#Ordinary people

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Ordinary People

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Ordinary People (1980) | dir. Robert Redford

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Donald Sutherland (7/17/1935 - 6/20/2024)

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dramione II aesthetics

Ordinary People  by @inadaze22

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Ordinary People / Hoam Museum of Art / Signage / 2023

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Robert Redford’s ORDINARY PEOPLE hit theaters across the U.S. on September 19, 1980. The winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton.

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Transfiguration

(for someone who doesn’t know who they’re really dealing with)

Today’s Gospel is the Transfiguration.

Where the Jesus that everyone knows, the one the Apostles have been with day in and day out. To the point that He’s just part of their normal. Is seen for who He really is.

God.

It’s something we need to be reminded to do. Often.

To look beyond appearances. To see who people really are. Starting with Jesus.

And then to look at each other, from His holy perspective, to see who all of us really are.

C.S. Lewis said it well:

“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.

All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations.

It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics.

There are no ordinary people.

You have never talked to a mere mortal.

Nations, cultures, arts, civilization—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”

(In case you wondered just how far the whole “made in the likeness and image of God” thing goes.)

Today’s Readings

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Donald Sutherland, Ordinary People, Robert Redford, 1980

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Canadian actor Donald Sutherland has passed away at age 88 after a long illness.

Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films including The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H, Kelly's Heroes, Klute, Don't Look Now, Fellini's Casanova, 1900, The Eagle Has Landed, National Lampoon's Animal House, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The First Great Train Robbery, Ordinary People, and Eye of the Needle. He later went on to star in many other films where he appeared either in leading or supporting roles such as A Dry White Season, JFK (1991), Outbreak, A Time to Kill, Without Limits, Space Cowboys, Big Shot's Funeral, The Italian Job, Cold Mountain, Pride & Prejudice (2005), Aurora Borealis, The Hunger Games franchise, and Ad Astra. His most recent TV roles include Swimming With Sharks and Lawmen: Bass Reeves.

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“I can’t respond when someone says, ‘here, I just did this great thing, love me.’”

Ordinary People (1980) dir. Robert Redford

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Repo Man

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Ordinary People / Hoam Museum of Art / Signage / 2023

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ordinary people by dcuros

ordinary people

by dcuros

M, WIP, 9k, Wangxian

Part of the MDZS WIP Bang

Summary: What if Wei Ying was never found by Jiang Fengmian? - Wei Ying is a simple villager, farmer by day and hunter by night. One night, he finds an injured boy in the forest. Kay's comments: A super cute story where Wei Wuxian grows up as a simple farmer and encounters Lan Wangji after he got hurt on a night-hunt and then promptly nurses him back to health. I love Wangxian's relationship in this, so cute and funny and also just so sweet. Excerpt: “Lan-gongziiii~,” he whined during lunchtime when his stories drew no reaction once again. “Come on! Talk to me! What have you been doing?” To his surprise, Lan Wangji set down his chopsticks and said, “Speaking is forbidden during meals.” He promptly resumed eating again, although a slight furrow had appeared on his brow. Finally, a reaction! Wei Ying wasn’t about to let go now. “No speaking at all, gongzi? Who said that? What if the situation was life or death? If there was an axe murderer was behind me? You wouldn’t say a word, Lan-gongzi? You’d let me die?” He jutted his lips out in an exaggerated pout. Lan Wangji merely raised an eyebrow at him, one that suggested that he would be the one swinging the axe if Wei Ying kept talking. “Aiyaaa! You would! And after all we’ve been through!” Wei Ying wailed, his own food now forgotten. He wiped an imaginary tear from his eye and sobbed. “You really would! You’d let me die of boredom, Lan-gongzi! This is how you treat me after all those nights we spent together.” “I–” Lan Wangji started, but his words seemed to catch in his throat. He glared at his bowl, still half-full, and clenched his chopsticks tight enough to turn his grip white. After a moment’s pause, his grip relaxed and he breathed deeply. He spoke, “I apologize, Wei-xiansheng. I am… unused to this.”

pov wei wuxian, canon era, canon divergence, injury, injury recovery, cultivastion sect politics, non-yunmeng wei wuxian, hurt lan wangji, caring wei wuxian, getting to know each other, different first meeting, domestic fluff, developing relationship, fluff and angst

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