Love means ...

I couldn't agree more with the passage below and the contribution of Eknath!

"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God."
– I John


The idea of romance held by the modern world seems to be taken from the world of business. We are told that love should not be freely given, but that it is a commodity that must be bargained over. Some wary couples are even drawing up “contracts” to specify who will do the dishes and who will wash the car. As long as the contract is observed to the letter, peace reigns, but any breach brings serious consequences. We model our personal lives after our business lives. If it works when negotiating a contract with your supplier, why shouldn’t it work when negotiating with your domestic partner?

Yet no one is content with this state of affairs. None of us really wants to strike back at those we love. We do not get satisfaction out of hurting people who have let us down. We have simply fallen into the habit of brooding on wrongs done to us, until we finally explode.

Love means that regardless of what someone does to us, we will not strike back in anger.

U.S. Embassy of Thailand Documentary Showcase @ SPU

It was such a great honor to host the film spcialists and filmmakers from the States at SPU for the screening of the documentary titled "Miss Navajo" by Billy Luther. There were SANDRA J. RUCH, BILLY LUTHER and STEVEN STARR over at the university to share their documenatry filming and knowledge in making a documentary with our students. Since it was the American Documentary Showcase week downtown Bangkok organized by the US Embassy, Thailand , they were invited to Thailand and were able to visit some universities and other places for the screening of their documentaries. The showcase is designed to promote American documentaries and their filmmakers at international overseas venues, including U.S. Embassy organized events and/or U.S. Embassy supported international documentary film festivals. A lot of our students from the Faculty of Communication Arts and Digital Media were then inspired by those filmmakers and their documentaries.

Sandra Ruch is the President of Elixir Consulting, Los Angeles, a full service consulting company to help documentary filmmakers with story development, marketing, distribution, festival, and outreach strategies.

BILLY LUTHER studied film at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and worked on projects for the Smithsonian Institution’s New York City National Museum of the American Indian Film and Video Center. A past honoree of Film Independent’s Project: Involve program, Luther was selected for the 2006 Sundance Institute/Ford Foundation Fellowship, Corporation for Public Broadcasting/PBS Producers Academy at WGBH in Boston, and
Tribeca Institute’s All Access Program with his feature documentary Miss Navajo. The film had its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and its national television premiere on Independent Lens on PBS, and is the winner of Michael Moore’s 2007 Special Founders Prize. He is in production on the documentaries Grab and The Untitled Indian Marching Band Project. Luther belongs to the Navajo, Hopi and Laguna Pueblo Tribes.

Founder of the award-winning creator sustainability pioneer Revver.com, STEVEN STARR previously managed KPFK-FM, the largest community radio signal in the US, co-founded P2P pioneer Uprizer, user-generated platform LA IndyMedia. Prior to that, Starr was writer/director and/or producer of award-winning indie films such as Joey Breaker and Johnny Suede and co-creator/producer of The State for MTV/CBS. He headed the New York film office for the William Morris Agency with clients such as Ang Lee, Tim Robbins, Larry David, Joseph Papp and Andy Warhol, and started off as a concert promoter for Bob Marley and the Wailers.

Another great event that we have over here at SPU.
For more information on Miss Navajo go to: http://www.missnavajomovie.com/ and http://ir.spu.ac.th/