Description: by Theodora Bakker.
In honor of my 3 day weekend, I watched Burns documentary on Thomas Jefferson; a reluctant public figure, a Renaissance man with interests from architecture to agriculture, and a wine collector. Near the end of his life Jefferson sold his personal library to the federal government and his collection became the most illustrious piece of the first collection of the Library of Congress. But beyond the numerous well know accomplishments and shortcomings, one other piece of the documentary interested me. At t
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Recently I saw the new Clooney movie - Up in the Air . A good movie, I recommend it. In the movie, the central characters are people who spend a lot of time traveling for work. Clooney's character is loyal to American Airlines, and loyalty is one of the themes portrayed through the flick (both his loyalty to the airline, if little else in his life, as well as the lack of loyalty seen in other areas of life - like professionally and personally). I saw this movie in St. Louis (where some of it was filmed)