Category: Family

Seeding Your Family Calendar With Fun

With a new year upon us, our family calendar is like a blank slate full of possibilities. It’s true that you reap what you sow, so why not plant seeds that you’ll look forward to harvesting all year long? Here are six enjoyable seeds to consider planting on this year’s family calendar. Theme Nights Especially…


Good Government Starts in Our Marriages, Minds, and Communities

The turn of the calendar is never complete unless it’s accompanied by a look back at the highs and lows of the preceding year, a job that various media outlets dutifully perform. Gallup is no exception. The popular polling firm recently released its list of issues that Americans considered the nation’s biggest problems in 2022….


Sad 53-Year-Old Cockatoo Rescued From a Basement Is Now in Love With Her New Owner’s Baby

For Feather the 53-year-old cockatoo, life has turned around after spending 15 years alone in a gloomy basement. The bright bird now spends her days wrapped in love as part of a young family and one special member, in particular, is her favorite. In the first week of April 2021, Stephanie Vito, who was pregnant…


Umbrellas

This film is available globally except in France, Spain, Belgium, Russia, Belarus, and Poland. In a faraway land where the rain never stops, 6-year-old Kyna spends her days playing carelessly with her dog Nana under the protective “umbrella beard” of her father, Din. He let it grow in order to shelter Kyna, who developed a…


Peep and the Paper Plane

This film is available globally except in Russia, Belarus, and Japan. While bird mother Paula is away searching for food, her son Peep gets unexpected help from a Paper Plane. Together, they head out to explore the magical world around them. But their friendship is soon to be tested. * Click the “Save” button below…


The Court Jester (1956)

The brutal Lare has slaughtered the entire royal family and claimed himself as king. A young baby, still in his clothes, escapes and is rescued by secret heroes codenamed Black Fox. With the help of his henchmen Hawkins and Maggie, the group embarks on a journey to escape with the last of the royal bloodline,…


The Sacred Nature of Family

Commentary Before the printing press and widespread literacy, signs and symbols were used as effective tools for teaching through art. Average viewers could recognize pictorial meaning even in the use of color. For example, red was a reference to humanity or the passions, purple indicated majesty, and white was an allusion to purity. Traditional symbols…


Pelé’s Family Gathers at Hospital Bedside in Sao Paulo

SAO PAULO—Family members of Brazilian soccer great Pelé are gathering at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo where the 82-year-old global icon has been since the end of November. Doctors said earlier this week that Pelé’s cancer had advanced, adding the three-time World Cup winner is under “elevated care” related to “kidney and cardiac…


Dji: Death Sails

This film is available globally except in Russia, Belarus, and Moldovia. Dji is a terribly unlucky grim reaper who doesn’t seem good at his job. This time, he has to take the soul of a pirate stuck in the middle of the ocean, but that is easier said than done! …


Baroque Christmas in Rome

This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. Works for Christmas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier & Giacomo Carissimi …