"Winter Passing" Is A Writer's Tale & A Commentary About Mentoring

Watching Ed Harris playing the aging, depressed, but still lovable writer who is confronted with his estranged daughter Reunion in "Winter Passing", and the upper and downer.

This is an actor who is getting more internal during his career.

It works from the inside, despite the fact that he was dressed in a suburb of Michigan tatters and wiry, thin, white mop for a haircut.

the world revolves around this once famous but now withdrawn novelist. Other characters are living with him. And their role is to feed, comfort and protect him from the savaging worshipers from the MFA program in Iowa, no less.

which is, of course, leads me to my place.

There is an undeniable creative energy given off by torches, and it is this force field, which allows them to be eccentric, and deserves our time and serious attention, although they fall May be drunk before breakfast.

I had a great opportunity in my doctoral program at USC to study with visiting professor emeritus at the University of Iowa, the patriarch in the field of rhetoric, and very polite gentleman, who, to my knowledge, had no vices disabled.

I did some of my best original research and wrote some of his best works for your seminars. His sessions are amazing, but to live happily for more than a handful of eager fans and respect.

Why I do some of my most important work in his presence?

Maybe it's a clue. the presence of

He also had a large staff to do, and that is why it is so important to invest time with them.

For all his talents, Ed Harris does not seem to show the kind of positive impact that makes mentoring so important. It can be a famous writer, and we are told this. However, except for the diligent care of his minions, I do not see how he deserves this special attention.

Compare that with another big man with whom I studied, for which I was the unofficial chauffeur on Saturday, after class. Peter F. Drucker

He just passed away at 95, but I knew him as a sprightly 80 years old. I got more from our time together, just by talking and by being in the same area, but most people, studying for 10 years with his subordinates.

If only Harris could be better in this film, the second generation of scientists willing and grateful to be spawned!