Hello again, dear readers.
For those of you who know me off this blog, you already know. On Monday, April 11th, my mother died. She had been suffering for a long time from a disease that took her from us piece by piece. It was not Alzheimer's, but something called White Matter Disease coupled with microvascular disease and hardening of the arteries. For more than eight years, I watched as my mother became more paranoid, lost her eyesight and mobility and her memory. By the time everything ended, Mom hadn't been able to speak for almost a year and couldn't let us know her thoughts or feelings.
It's been four days since my mother's soul moved on from this world and I can't quite make sense of it all. I'm planning to go to counseling for a while because I need to be sure I make peace with what's happened. I know that there was nothing anyone ultimately could have done to prevent this from happening, but I wish I still had my mom, happy and healthy.
Friday, April 15, 2016
Sunday, January 31, 2016
A break from the spiritual: A possible definition of "Frozen's" Elsa
Hello again, dear readers!
I am taking a break from the spiritual journey posts to talk about a flash of insight I had regarding "Let It Go," the song from Disney's Frozen.
Elsa's journey has been considered like coming out in the gay community. However, I can offer another possible meaning. Throughout history, women have been pushing their emotions and opinions down within themselves in order to fit in, deal with other people and even deal with the chaos around them. I realized how often I did that and also saw that even while singing in triumph, Elsa was still running away from what was.
The King and Queen were, out of love, attempting to protect their elder daughter, as parents do when they want to help their child fit in and be good. But as sometimes happens in real life, that backfired. Elsa pulled in to the point that she shut out everyone, including her parents and her little sister. And when her parents died, Elsa felt like she had to keep the secret of her gifts, having been trained to see them as a curse. Only when she was truly honest with her sister and embraced something that she really loved to do was Elsa truly free.
I am taking a break from the spiritual journey posts to talk about a flash of insight I had regarding "Let It Go," the song from Disney's Frozen.
Elsa's journey has been considered like coming out in the gay community. However, I can offer another possible meaning. Throughout history, women have been pushing their emotions and opinions down within themselves in order to fit in, deal with other people and even deal with the chaos around them. I realized how often I did that and also saw that even while singing in triumph, Elsa was still running away from what was.
The King and Queen were, out of love, attempting to protect their elder daughter, as parents do when they want to help their child fit in and be good. But as sometimes happens in real life, that backfired. Elsa pulled in to the point that she shut out everyone, including her parents and her little sister. And when her parents died, Elsa felt like she had to keep the secret of her gifts, having been trained to see them as a curse. Only when she was truly honest with her sister and embraced something that she really loved to do was Elsa truly free.
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