See the Sea....

Yesterday was a tad rough, my whimsical world came to a halt as the dreadful tally of youthful indiscretion returned. Bill payment. Awe, the college years that caused more pain in my pocket book than to my misty sensibility.  Priding oneself on their keen ability to see life as fairground attraction is difficult  to weather when you have the "other" biting at your toes. Other people's reality does indeed bite-but why let them bite, when you can swallow them up?

Still I push forward, weaving little fantasies on page and stitching dreams on my soul. It can be a tad rough.  Grown-ups can be vexing especially when fiscal matters are thumping ones skull like a calvera after the marigolds wither, a muerte es más dulce que la vida, si? Spanish indeed, pardon my incorrect use of the language, I'm hardly the Spanish speaker but I do try.

Speaking of Spanish, which raises a bridge to the word: cultural and leading me to multi-cultural mythology. For those reading this, if anyone does intact read my fledgling blog- I am a wee obsessive over myths, legends, and ghost stories. Since a child I had a curious admiration for the Irish Bean-Sidhe:

Banshee and the Latin America: La Llorna. To vary different personifications of death, both female though one keens preceding death and the other cries following death. Death in those worlds signifies change, a progression from one plane to the next. I guess that is what drives me to write, moving through planes. Transcendence in any form is creating something out of nothing. My stories where never nothing, they come from somewhere hence are something.

My thoughts are doing a wild watusi, here. Prado me, I'm overly excited in watching, "Song of the Sea." A charming animated film about selkies. The shape-shifting seal women of Ireland. Dearie me, I have been on this aquatic feel for a few years, my entire flat is drenched in shades of blue.

Though this month steered me further into the emerald, Emerald Island ala Ireland. While skimming through movies, I came across, "Undine" with Colin Farrell, a enjoyable film till its ridiculous ending, but a myth-tinged film,  a week later some random conversation concerning some vague so and so, someone mentioned Maureen O'Hara (Irish actress)  which brought someone mentioned "The Quiet One," set in Ireland leading me to eavesdropping on a customer's conversation via iPhone at the shop I work at, mumbling about a "I'm watching a movie from the guys who did a cartoon about some book called Kells." Really I thought to myself, calling one of the most beautiful illuminated manuscripts "some book"set my cauldron to a bubble. Granted, it did spark my attention. so I'm quite thankful for the young woman's ignorant comment as she spawned my research into the film, "The Secret of Kells" introducing me to "Song of Sea." Hurrah for new cinema this evening!

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