Muirmaiden & Spock: A Journey During This Time Of Crisis
Spock: The Icon Dear readers, in my first blog post of 2020, I decided to write something that is still tied to my love of classic Hollywood and the arts, but also that has a deeper meaning to me. As with most others during this COVID-19 crisis, I have found myself spending more time all by my lonesome, more so than I would like (and I say this as a person who is somewhat introverted). This has led me to not only re-watching shows and films that were significant to me in my growing up years, and re-reading books connected to that, but also having more time to re-examine and acknowledge things about myself that have been thought-provoking and somewhat painful. However, it has been enlightening and I wanted to share some of it with you. I don't consider myself a Trekkie, but I am a fan of the original Star Trek and the character of Spock, the half-Vulcan, half-human science officer, played masterfully and memorably by the late Leonard Nimoy (1931 - 2015), and this was a s