With the release of Oz the Great and Powerful this weekend, it was suggested by my editor that I re-watch The Wizard of Oz for the first time in quite a few years and write down my thoughts.
Given this year's seriously powerful helpers, a weekend of outdoor nurturing promises deep satisfaction for both soil and spirit, as well as a glorious renewal come spring.
"We are working with individuals who would like to organize a march to ensure that it would complement an already powerful and impactful weekend," said Ryan Bos, the executive director of the Capital Pride Alliance.
On two successive weekends, powerful but crude nail bombs have been set off in street markets in London.
They are incredibly powerful events -- weekends without booze or drugs, no experts speaking down to people, no theorizing, no therapy and no talking over people.
Go and watch Georgia, Wales and Portugal, who ensured that they walked away with dignity and pride intact after suffering at the hands of more powerful forces over the weekend.
Related: Nepal earthquake: death toll could reach 10,000, says PM – live updates The climbers, including British guides and their clients, had been trapped at camps one and two on the mountain's Western Cwm since Saturday, when a series of avalanches triggered by the weekend's powerful earthquake devastated Everest base camp below them, killing 18 foreign climbers and Sherpas, and injuring 61.
Many of them did not know one another but were beckoned, as was this reporter, by the promise of a weekend of powerful community building and spiritual transformation.
Over the weekend, many powerful world leaders condemned Donald Trump's executive order restricting citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries Iraq, Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen from entering the United States.
Oxford's Stornoway, though, offer the weekend's most powerful renewal of the hard verities which are folk music's currency.
