1.13 Simple Human Decency, Field of Dreams, and Some Humour

When did I go to sleep last night? — No way was I going to record today — A tumble of thoughts — A good creative principle — Small manageable chunks — Modular — A sort of serial — The real heroes in life are the people who keep life going no matter what — In that spirit — A podcast like a radio programme of comforting regularity — Heroes and superheroes — Perspectives change — Superman goes crazy — Poor Jimmy Olsen — The other 48% of the time — Pretending to be Santa Claus — Cinnamon roll — A living hell — Going crazy about 50% of the time is not good — Pivot into the main point — Simple human decency — Field of Dreams — Directed by Phil Alden Robinson — Based on a book by W. P. Kinsella — Featuring Kevin Costner — A few years ago someone asked me who my favourite actor was — The question took me by surprise — More a matter of the story than any actor — Edward James Olmos, Christopher Walken — No good answer — Hero stuff — This most unassuming form of heroism — A lot of people do things for the wrong reasons — Narcissism, desire to impress — The people who simply keep life going — No living under a dark cloud — Ray Kinsella — A humility and gratitude at what he has in life — The greatest treasure a person can have — Working through his issues — The emotional core of this film — The pain of having said something you regret — Too late — A story of a second chance — Humanity and genuine feeling — Another facet of that diamond-hard pain — Parents go through literal trauma in raising a family — The price they pay — The very least we can do — Exceptionally beautiful soundtrack by James Horner — When he was asked to score it — Speechless — Simplicity and taking its cue from the film itself — A big symphonic score would have been all wrong — Appropriate music — A fascinating thing about writing film music — The greatest people — A crazy and unexpected time — Beacons of sanity