A Movie & Pizza – DailyBlog

Listening to Kelly & Ryan this morning (Chanda loves the show), a doctor promoted some moderate daily exercise to boost health land wellbeing in older people. I have long been an advocate of moderate to intense exercise for longevity and long term health. The doctor promoted 10 minutes of exercise daily. In my opinion this is inadequate for significant changes over time. I suppose that by pushing 10 minutes of exercise as beneficial (which it is), that he may get through to more people. Ten minutes walking is easy enough to do. It is no more difficult to take an hours personal time and make that a priority. I did zero saddle time yesterday and expect to make up for it today.

To give Chanda some “alone time” for work, we went to the movies yesterday. We saw “Leave No Trace”. It’s a film about a war vet with PTSD who is raising his daughter in the wild of an Oregon national park. They get caught, interviewed, and placed with a tree farmer who gives them a place to stay. The vet works on the tree farm and his daughter goes to school. For the first time she has an inkling of what life could be like. This is a very slow moving artsy film that won awards at Sundance. For me, the film did an excellent job getting at the relationship between the father and daughter. I’d guess there are many vets living on the periphery of society in or near national parks. The film gets at some of the symptoms of PTSD. The movie ends in the only logical way possible. It was not a satisfying conclusion, nor was the film. Realism is often detached and seldom uplifting. This was a realistic film. Was it “good”? I leave that up to you, should you chose to see it. It definitely leaves a trace.

So what’s this about pizza? I don’t know if you’ve been to a US movie theater recently. You can now get a slice and beer at the movies! No kidding. However that is not the pizza I’m talking about. In fact I have never ordered either a slice nor a beer in the theater. No. The pizza in question is Blue Ribbon Artisan Pizzeria in Escondido, Ca. Scott & Kirsten took us there for dinner last night. Their pizza crust is more like the pizza we had in Italy than any I’ve had in the US. Their crust is very similar to my pizza crust when I get it right. I love the crunch of a thin slice. Blue Ribbon’s toppings are “different”. It is not what you would get in Italy, nor what you’d get most places in the US. They use fennel sausage on some pizza. Fennel sausage is a hallmark of Florence, Italy. One of their pizzas is topped with a mound of uncooked arugula

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