We took our seven-year-old granddaughter, Evey to see the movie that John Krasinski and Ryan Reynolds were in called IF (Imaginary Friends)
A great movie that just doesn’t pull back the curtain on what I don’t want you to see, it rips it from their rod so that I could really see, feel, experience what I’ve never really lost or even forgotten so much as embarrassingly remember, and now kind of horrifyingly admit: I’VE GOT THEM; Yes. . . I’ve got THEM; not so much imaginary friends, IF’S, but things that bring me exceedingly comfort, peace, happiness, contentment and unconditional love
Oh, that’s right and the real fun began afterwards when we went back to their house and grandma helped plant flowers while Evey assisted and every time she took up a worm or yes, even a grub, she talk to it, named them, treated it is if they were her new best friends. Before playing in a bucket of mud (of which I don’t think her mom especially liked)
reveling in joy and hopefully never forgetting what I have most often:
YOU ARE ALWAYS A KID!
E N J O Y
HAVE FUN
DON’T EVER STOP
Now. . .about that Emotional Support Pile of Books. . .
Love Has. . . .
We all have T H A T idea, don’t we?
We all know what LOVE IS
We all know what LOVE ISN’T
We all know what LOVE HAS
We all know what LOVE HASN’T
We all know what LOVE DOES
We all know what LOVE DOESN’T. . .
For US. . .no. . .
FOR ME!
I had a hypothesis WE would have a different view of this short little film clip on
DIVERSITY and INCLUSION.
I wasn’t disappointed. . .
but I was really hoping I was.
I showed it to several different groups over the past few weeks: Discussion groups, hospice groups, church groups, older generational groups, a group of teenagers, a bereavement group, a host of individuals, and several close friends and family members.
The Verdict?
NOT Unanimous.
The
S T I C K I N G
point?
It wasn’t LOVE HAS NO RACE. . .
It wasn’t LOVE HAS NO DISABILITIES. . .
It wasn’t LOVE HAS NO AGE. . .
It wasn’t LOVE HAS NO RELIGION. . .
It wasn’t LOVE HAS NO LABELS. . .
Love, apparently DOES KNOW Gender.
QUESTION: is love the greatest force in and out of this world?
ANSWER:
Psssssst: it’s just a
YES
NO
answer.
Not an:
UNLESS
EXCEPT
BUT
AND
IF
OR
ANSWER. . . .
Love AGREES to DISAGREE so this isn’t a Blistering Commentary for those who don’t go along with my
feelings
thoughts
perspectives
beliefs
theory
hypothesis. . . .
It’s an invitation to share
It’s an invitation to imagine
It’s an invitation to reach out and be reached out to
It’s an invitation to LOVE
ESPECIALLY if it’s NOT in Agreement
with definition or without
to make the
GRAY
a little more of a blinding
White
that makes us all squint in amazement
always to see a little better…maybe never in the same way
BUT ALWAYS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
Join me, Love.