I recently watched the new movie Spirited on Apple TV+. My face was stuck in smile position the entire time. It’s silly, fun, heartfelt and hope-filled. It’s a redemption story. And even though are a bajillion trillion interpretations of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, there always seems to be room for one more. I’ve been listening to the soundtrack, especially the song Do A Little Good. Here are a few lyrics:

But even if you lost your way
You don't have to stay a lost cause
So can we do a little good?

There’s so much I could write about in those lyrics and the movie. The words seem simple and yet, changing how you live and think is a huge deal. It’s a big change. One concept in the movie is that there are some people on the earth who decidedly cannot and will not change - they’re referred to as Unredeemables - never to put others before themselves. It’s something to wonder about - the people in our lives that we see as unchangeable. Is that true? Have we stopped trying? When do you stop trying?

At the same time, some people who get tagged as good may have lived, at some point, in a way that would label them the opposite. This is a glimpse into the stream of consciousness that lives in my head a lot of the time. What I hope though, is that I always try to be the type of person who believes that it’s never too late for somebody to change; And to remember that none of us are all good or all bad. This movie isn’t complicated or trying to be something artsy, it’s just fun and i’m grateful for that.

🎩 Listen to the song here: https://youtu.be/HmnVT1ELokw