ABOUT TIME is about kindness and love and impossible things. What could be better?

"We're all traveling through time together every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride."  Tim, from ABOUT TIME

Actors Domhnall Gleeson and Bil Nighy in time-travel mode.

It's not that I was in ill humor when we sat down to watch ABOUT TIME last night.  The cooler days had stalked off, leaving us with temperatures heading up the thermometer (the old, analog kind) and I could feel my energy waning.  Then the mango slices had to be rescued from the floor, washed and eyeballed (yes, it IS that kind of a home) while the cranky voices in my head found fault with things that don't even exist.  All that evaporated with this story, for which I now have great affection, introducing us to kind, loving people who live quirky lives in quiet ways and have tea on the beach next to their Cornwall home every day no matter what the weather.  You may more easily find yourself swallowed by this Richard Curtis work if you remember the phrase, "the willing suspension of disbelief."  It is fiction, possibly fairy tale, taken as such, taken as antidote to millennial  cynicism, narcissism, rejection of magic as one of the impossible things that happens.

By the movie's end I was refreshed, restored and reminded that the high and happy road is never a wrong choice.  Happiness IS a choice.  Uninvited, it will not likely come and sit by your side for ever and ever.  Make room for it, expect it and set out the trail of cake (not bread) crumbs to lure it closer.  Life is about what we do in spite of everything.  It may be a test, we can't be sure.  Pretend that it is.  ABOUT TIME offers us a map, one that may take us where we want to go.  It charmed me, lifted me out of the doldrums, if that is what they were, by my ears.  Perhaps I could watch clips of this every night instead of the news.