A Piece Of Heaven

I was watching Kingdom of Heaven again today after The Bad Sleep Well.

There is a part of this movie that is very appealing to me. Balian has inherited his father's land in the Holy Land. A thousand acres of dusty nothing.

Out of this wilderness he builds something nice. They dig for water. Irrigate the crops. Forge an oasis out of the desert. I confess it is just a fantasy of mine. Yeah, long term readers of my blog will recognize the similarities between this and my post about the song "Please Come To Boston".

The setting is different but the sentiment is the same.

An isolated cabin in the mountains. A place to hide from the world with a loved one. Someplace that even on the coldest mountain night it is warm inside.

A place where the square footage is a place where nothing else exists except you and her, where all is right with the world and what isn't doesn't exist.

Yeah it is a hedonistic fantasy of self indulgence, truly it is.

Simplicity doesn't counter that.