Welcome to the second sleepy Sunday cinema, this time the movie is Unstoppable, one of my favorite Denzel Washington movies. I’ve got coffee with Irish Cream and a slice of chocolate-caramel coffee cheesecake to kick things off. Going to be working on Bayou Born, book five of the Comet Lake Chronicles today, so there’s no telling who’ll weigh in on their thoughts on the movie, so this should be fun.
The opening theme of Unstoppable is how they are pushing the
experienced workers out of the way to make room for new workers who they can
pay less. It got me thinking about the different packs in the Comet Lake world
and how wolves who have lived among different packs loved and appreciated some
of the quirks that made Comet Lake special.
Pushing elders out the way to make room for younger wolves
has never been the way of the Comet Lake pack, but it is the way of other
packs, who pride themselves on strength and prowess rather than wisdom and the
art of negotiation. In Comet Lake, the elders mentor the younger members of the
pack, their version of teaching is hands-on, and as a wolf’s skills grow they
give them more and more responsibility. Even when they turn over the bulk of
the tasks to another wolf, the elders are still in the shops, crafting,
crating, focusing on the things they love to do most, as well as helping to
teach the younger wolves that walk through the door.
The Comet Lake pack focuses on communal living. There isn’t a
monetary pay scale, and wolves are encouraged to try their hand at different
tasks until they discover something they love. The belief being that a wolf
will be more focused and attentive to a job well done if they are doing something
they are truly passionate about.
Every wolf in a pack is cared for, every single one can walk
into any shop and get whatever item their heart desires. They have the ability
to arrange payment for them in the form of goods from their own shops and gardens,
volunteering time to work in that establishment, bringing pelts and game to the
owners, or fruit they’ve gathered from any one of numerous spots on pack
lands. They can offer time to fix something, help to build something, it's all
about making the skills they possess work for them. They can even volunteer
their time to fulfill some need that other wolf has, like wrangling their pups
for the evening so a couple or tri-bond can spend some alone time together.
Teaching someone a new skill doesn’t just involve patience
and knowledge, it’s about knowing when to be hands-off, and how to walk them
through problem-solving, rather than snatching it back and doing it for them.
"A wreck on a wreck, that’s where some of our plans might be
headed. But we will end the practice of trafficking in shifters as exotic pets
and we will find out who among the packs is involved in it. " - Councilman Brooks Hagan of the Comet Lake Pack
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