We watched a Lord of the Rings marathon today. All three films in ten hours, all of us crowded into Katie’s living room which her family kindly turned over to us for the day.
I’m not sure how I can qualify watching a movie marathon and eating junk food as education, but something in me knows that it is. Cheering for the Hobbits, laughing at Gimlie, collectively hating the Orks is so much fun when we’re together. Maybe Californians are right and a movie needs to be a shared experience. Shared with friends. Good friends. And doing something outrageous like a movie marathon is always a plus.
Of course I don’t recommend sitting in front of a flickering screen over hiking, rowing, creating, or doing in all of its forms,. But occasionally on a cold winter day with friends, a movie marathon can bring a group of close friends even closer.
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