I call it
B E I N G
SENSITIVE
CARING
IN TOUCH
VULNERABLE
OPEN
TRANSPARENT
EMPATHETIC
SYMPATHETIC
well, yes, even
A CARING CATALYST
. . .O T H E R S
well, they call it being a
WIMP
SOFT
SACCHARINE
MUSHY
GUSHY
A
C R Y
B A B Y
Here’s the scene. . .
Actually, four of them. . .
When I came home around 4:45 there was no one home and so after changing, I flipped on the tv and knew I didn’t want to finish Dr Phil or begin ELLEN and I wasn’t crazy about the mumbo-jumbo on SPORTSCENTER, so with remote in hand I went to HBO and the first thing that came up was the ending of BRUCE ALMIGHTY:
ANYTHING?
Go ahead. . .
No one’s watching,
No hand in the air to admit that the scene might have put some dampness in the corner of your eye. . .
As BRUCE ALMIGHTY ended I switched it over to the ending of
MOULIN ROUGE:
NOTHING?
Oh, for me, yeah. . .
IT WAS ON
Lump-in-the-throat-can’t-swallow-want-to-primal-scream-cry. . .
and the before I could fully get one good
swallow
I switched the channel to the old 2005 movie
IN HER SHOES:
SOMETHING. . . ?
Not only because I’ve been a life long fan of
e.e. cummings
but because sometimes there are just
W O R D S
that a Heart shouts
and a mouth can never whisper
that says everything you ever wanted to say
but no way ever could
and yet. . .
HAVE
with THAT person
you know that living a life time with
can never be long enough
so there’s an Eternity
to have your never-do-you-part Lives
(I love you in THAT way, Erin)
and just seeing that scene. . .
feeling those words:
t e a r s
and even as I was getting the remote control wet
I flipped over to the final scene of Tom Hanks
BIG:
W E L L. . . ?
Is there anything better than not just
GOING HOME
but actually
BEING HOME. . .
I loved what Elizabeth Perkins character said right before this last scene when Hanks was trying to explain to her that he was really just a 13 year-old kid and she said, “WHO DOESN’T HAVE A 13 YEAR OLD KID LIVING INSIDE OF THEM?”
Oh, my, my, my, my. . .
I just clicked the tv off
and sat there in the dimly lit room
. . .the cat and the dog were both a little curious
about their odd owner/caregiver
who was anything but an
owner of his feelings
caregiver of his emotions
and loving every moment of
i t
. . .I need no
CRY BABY METER
it’s on
often for me
with a movie scene
a song
a well phrased line
a. . .
TRUTH:
If there’s an intervention
If there’s a therapy
If there’s a medication
. . .I don’t want it;
If there’s a Cure
I look not to be healed. . .
Y O U ?
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