Watching The Whale I was struck by several insights into the issues raised by this film. Firstly, by how un-American this movie was. Where were all the beautiful people? American celluloid and TV is, generally, characterised by a smug self-confidence with everybody sensing that they are the bee’s knees. The Whale watcher: Barfing about blubber. Holding up a mirror to a nation with a massive obesity problem is not normal fare on American screens. The clever use of intertextuality with that god awful American novel Moby Dick called attention to the theatrical roots of this production. The play/movie grappled with those age old American themes so densely inculcated within Moby Dick. God, religious belief, and questions of morality fill the pages of the great American novel. If you have ever attempted to read Moby Dick, the actual white whale is rarely sighted within its pages, rather Melville subjects readers to endless tracts on earnest searches for meaning within the Christian paradigm. It is a book that tries too hard to be morally deep and meaningful. 

A Whale Of A Film About Fat 

The morbidly obese central character at the heart of The Whale is filmed unflinchingly stuffing his fat face. Fat people are rarely featured in movies apart from their roles as comedic bit players, generally, employed to lighten the tone. Funny and fat is the usual score. Maybe, funny/sad and fat for films with a little more shading. Grossly obese in close up is not a Hollywood template for box office success. The whale is beset by an ensemble of characters representing family, friendship, fast food, and American evangelical door knocking Christianity. In his last days and hours in terminal decline our whale encounters filial responsibility, an embittered but loyal carer, daily pizza deliveries, and a lost soul hoping to save a whale with missionary zeal. 
https://www.midasword.com.au/the-whale-watcher-barfing-about-blubber/

Opening Deposit 
An introduction to the about to be published book Money Matters - Navigating Credit, Debt & Financial Freedom by Robert Sudha Hamilton.
Robert Sudha Hamilton is a writer first and foremost. He writes on economics, philosophy, health, history, and golf. On the history front, he majored in the study of Ancient History at Macquarie University and went on to complete post graduate studies in that same field and in Human Rights.  He is the author of several titles on the ancient world, natural health, personal development, and Stoicism.

Books by Robert Sudha Hamilton include: Speaktruth: God Knows No Words, House Therapy: Discovering More of Yourself at Home, Essays on the Ancient World. The Stoic Golfer: Finding Inner Peace & Focus on the Fairway, The Golf Book: Green Cathedral Dreams, A Guide to Healing & Wellbeing, and more.

His YouTube videos can be found at Robert Sudha Hamilton

@robertsudhahamilton7073

Money matters! Most people on planet earth would agree with this economical statement. We all start out on mother’s milk or an artificial alternative of this nurturing substance. However, it is not too long before we depend upon pocket money to satisfy our desire for sweets. Once expelled from mum and dad’s garden of Eden many of us must hunt and gather dollars or dosh of our national currency to fund our lives and lifestyles. Money matters sit at the base of this primal urge to survive and thrive. We all must pay the piper and pay the rent.

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Clear Correlations Emerging Between Gut Microbiome & Good Health

‘Microbiome’ – Micro meaning very small – Bio meaning life – Me meaning you or me. Remember this term because it is going to become better recognised as an important factor in human health and our longevity. Human microbiome is defined as the collection of genes found in all microbes residing within us – basically all the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and microorganisms inhabiting our bodies. ‘Microbiota’, another term, refers to all microorganisms inhabiting a particular environment like the gut. There are many trillions of these microscopic entities residing in our human gastrointestinal tract, on our skin, and most places.
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Sudha Hamilton is a natural health writer, historian, and chef. His published titles include: House Therapy: Discover Who You Really Are At Home; Healing Our Wellbeing; and Sacred Chef.  Titles available at Amazon.

House Therapy enters the Kitchen, drumroll and fire spitting jugglers are immediately on the scene. Discover the roots of the kitchen and what it all means to you at home. The goddess Hestia and the temple of good cheer. The Homeric Hymn 24 - "Hestia in the highest dwelling of all." Sacrifice? What is that all about really? Do you dare to enter the kitchen? Just another room in your house? I doubt it. The engine room of every home is the kitchen. Cooking up a storm? Rattling the pans and doing the culinary dance. Check it out.

House Therapy - Discover Who You Really Are at Home spends some quality time in the bedroom. This is a room where the private you must have the right environment. Sleep and sex are two important pastimes. Dos muy importante puertas. Both are portals to other realms. Breath and breathing are essential tools for both activities. Letting go of control is vital to sound sleep and soulful sex. Join Freud and Jung, Joseph Campbell, Thomas de Quincy and Sudha Hamilton in this symposium on sleep, sex and the bedroom. 

Working from home is the new normal but for many it is an unfamiliar zone. In this 3rd installment of House Therapy we focus on the Work Room. Having a work room or office within your home can be challenging. Changing hats amid your family is for some folks a tough thing to do. Here are some tips and insights around the whole working from home caper. Doing battle with the dragon of material reality and bringing back some much needed respect and renumeration is of the upmost importance in most peoples' lives. Enjoy listening to this House Therapy podcast and get the book at housetherapy.com.au for further enlightening information.

The next installment in House Therapy - Discovering Yourself at Home. The Bathroom Queen Vol 2 is all about our relationship to the body, our physical self. The body, beauty, ageing and mortality. The four riders in the storm. Enjoy this thought provoking podcast with one eye on the reflection in the bathroom mirror.

In this opening 60 minute podcast discover the secrets and insights within your home. House Therapy by Sudha Hamilton is ideally suited to time spent at home. Do something constructive with your coronavirus quarantine time. You will enjoy listening to this fresh look at homes and human nature.