A strong, happy, meaningful life consists of awareness and skill in a variety of areas ~ some for our own internal well-being, others that equip us to deal effectively with what we meet in the world (compassion toward or protection from, as the case may be). The movie themes and traits below link to excellent illustrations of people expressing them (or not!), providing yardsticks for how well we’re incorporating them into our own.
- Addiction and Recovery
- Ambition
- Assertiveness
- Authenticity
- Awe
- Balance
- Beauty
- Betrayal
- Boundaries
- Competence
- Courage
- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Death and Dying
- Duty (Piety)
- Empathy
- Endurance
- Ethics
- Evil
- Fairness
- Faith
- Fear
- Flexibility
- Forgiveness
- Freedom
- Friendship
- Generosity
- Gratitude
- Grit
- Happiness
- Honesty
- Hope
- Hubris
- Humility
- Humor and Human Comedy
- Identity
- Illness or Disability
- Initiation (Innocence vs. Experience)
- Journeys and Quests
- Justice
- Kindness
- Leadership
- Legacy
- Loneliness
- Loss
- Love and Attachment
- Loyalty
- Man vs. Himself
- Man vs. Man
- Man vs. Nature
- Maturity
- Mercy
- Nobility
- Optimism
- Perseverance
- Personality Disorders
- Perspective
- Playfulness
- Prejudice
- Prudence
- Purpose
- Reconciliation
- Resiliency
- Restoration
- Rites of Passage
- Self-Acceptance
- Self-Care
- Self-Confidence
- Self-Control
- Self-Respect
- Social Concern and Change
- Spirituality
- Suffering
- Teamwork
- Temptation
- Time
- Trauma
- Trust
- Vengeance
- Vision
- Willingness
- Wisdom
- Youth and Age
- Zest
Libra, INTP, English Major, 
Back from a seriously scary health relapse in mid-October and returning to action. Kudos to my patient friends and colleagues, you're the best. New programs and more unrolling this year, here's to 2012!