Reel Power: Spiritual Growth Through Film

by Marsha Sinetar

Marsha Sinetar points out in "Reel Movies" that movies can make you see and feel your life differently. Movies are the mythology of our time. Their stories are ours. They are our reflections, our shadows, our losses, and perhaps our ultimate truth. If this wonderful book can make you see that, it is well worth the price of admission.

179 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

I began my professional life as a first-grade teacher, and quickly fell in love with the whole wide world of learning -- particularly learning how to learn, and how to love learning. Our favorite authors must share that love. My published biographical notes show that I moved through the ranks of public instruction- including administration, curriculum design, and more--, then followed the Divine prompt to start my own leadership firm -- mostly for the private sector, Fortune 500 types. I still serve in an advisory, ombudsman-"sounding board" fashion, still love that work, sensing that, in a way, we're somehow all just kids at heart, living in a lesson world, and learning our greater strengths, capacities, wisdom every day.

Writing developed as I matured. As did my pen-and-ink art, etchings, graphics and such. Although I have a good formal education, it's clear that when we love what we do -- be it parenting, truck driving, technology, theology, crafts, or cooking -- we'll learn what we need in surprising, often self-governing, intuitive ways. The older I get, the more I trust that "small, still voice" within to guide my own learning-- academic or otherwise.