Stories

To quote from today's Sunday Times review of The Da Vinci Code:

"There's a terrible snobbery about The Da Vinci Code... You would think that in our age, a best selling blockbuster that is rooted in European history and its high culture, a book that gets millions of people discussing everything from Christian theology to the art of Leonardo da Vinci might deserve a little credit."

I'm surprised by some of the bad reviews that the film has been getting. The main problem seems to be that some critics, whose very job is to find praise and fault in things, are viewing the film as an artistic work. It's not. Hell, Dan Brown would be the first to admit that.

It's a story.

Humanity loves to tell stories, we've done so since the birth of language. Somewhere along journey of history stories change, often written by the victors, truth is diluted by fiction, stories become mythology and legend.

Like most things in modern life, don't believe everything you read.

Pause, consider, keep an open mind.

Think a little more.

And accept the possibilities.