Total Recall 1990,  The movie:

They stole his mind, now he wants it back.

What is reality when you can’t trust your memory? An Earthbound construction worker keeps having dreams about Mars. A trip to a false memory transplant service for an imaginary trip to Mars goes terribly wrong and another personality surfaces. When his old self returns, he finds groups of his friends and several strangers seem to have orders to kill him. He finds records his other self left him that tell him to get to Mars to join up with the underground. The reality of the situation is constantly in question. Who is he? Which personality is correct? Which version of reality is true?

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Reaching back into my archives to bring you a piece I wrote last year on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s Birthday.

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On this day I encourage you to read and reflect on a speech delivered five months before I was born by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a celebration of a milestone in a battle, yet also a signal that the battle is not yet over. We’ve made some progress since then, but when the baton was passed on to our generation … what did we do with it?

Did we run till our feet got blistered or sore? Did we stand up for injustices in our homes, community, churches or jobs? Or did we pass the baton without even trying?

I’ve never been in the army but I have practiced marching for my “house: Melba” while at school in the West Indies. The same synchronicity and precision was needed and the “house” was as strong or as weak as its slowest, uncoordinated or day dreaming (yes me… LOL) member.

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Yesterday I was musing on Fred Hammond’s “You are the Living Word”, “Lord Your Grace”, “No Weapon”… last night (while struggling to come up with a concept to describe an upcoming rally/outreach sponsored by our youth ministry) I heard the first cut on Kirk Franklin’s latest CD, Fight of My Life. If ever there was a title that applied to me… that was it! (no pun intended)

I have listened to it on Youtube at least twelve times already and don’t intend to stop anytime soon. Why? It speaks to me.

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