Last week on Thursday, October 10 was National Mental Health Day. . .
It’s not a day that’s celebrated so much as observed
and maybe that’s the biggest problem we have with
MENTAL HEALTH
we don’t so much observe it
because we do everything we can to
NOT SEE IT
to cover it up
to silence it
to never talk about it
bring it up. . .
U N T I L
it just WILL NOT go
UN-SEEN
UN-OBSERVED
UN-NOTICED
UN-RECOGNIZED
UN-SPOKEN
UN-COVERED
It’s all enough to make
E V E R Y T H I N G
get short-circuited. . .
The transcendent artistry of Green Renaissance Films allows us to enter into the life of a young man who has journeyed through mental disorder and arrived at a place of wholeness with an openness to the chaos of life. He has come to realize that he does not need to hold fear at bay by trying to order his world, controlling everything. Rather he embraces the chaos and unpredictability of daily living as the magic of the real world, allowing more beautiful things to happen, a world full of possibilities. The beauty of the film’s location in South Africa adds an even deeper dimension to this young man’s profound insights.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm of the Day:
Maybe
MENTAL ILLNESS
isn’t something to
OBSERVED
at all
just so much as not
I G N O R E D. . .
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