Infinite Engine of Imagination

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I am always beguiled by truely creative people's minds. How do they think the things they think? Where do they get their ideas? How do they work through their ideas? What is the source of such brilliance or alternate visions?


I often say, give me a book and watch me nap; show me and you've taught me for life. Everybody learns and processes information differently. It's important to discover which way works best for you. I know that visual communication is best for me in all things. Like "they" say, a picture is worth a thousand words. I marvel at the "known amazing" and the "infinitely undiscovered!" Take a beautiful butterfly for instance; the tiny wings that defy gravity, the curly hollow tongue and the beady eyes...not to mention their ticklish feet. What a creature! It starts from a worm, eats like a pig, sleeps like a bum and transforms like a phoenix. Talk about your extreme makeovers.





Anyhoo, I saw this movie last nite that was really cool on a lot of levels. It reflects the imagination of a little girl in some very difficult positions as she discovers or tries to hold on to the innocent magic of life as her mother suffers some unknown illness during her pregnancy with the little girl's brother. In a troubled land, she discovers a maze. A maze is a place where you get lost. But a labyrinth is essentially a place of transit, an ethical, moral transit to one inevitable destination. Hmmm...great psych blah blah or is it? Most things we don't see because we aren't ready to. Even worse, we don't realize what we're looking at already. They say vision is the art of seeing what others do not. I want plenty of that. I always wanted to see and slay demons; even cast them out, trample them under my feet. I even prayed for it a couple of times. Once I think I did. Things don't always look like we expected and that hinders our vision. What grand creatures are near us at all times? Anyway, see the movie. There are some fantastic creatures and incredible life lessons that will leave you spellbound. It is amazing what children can see that adults cannot. Children haven't been told yet that they cannot or are stupid for believing or hoping or that anything extraordinary isn't possible...nothing good is real. Isn't there a sad truth lurking under that smelly statement?


Our lives, like the butterflies are a labyrinth that take us from one understanding to a new level over the coarse of time. We struggle to keep hope, magic, innocence, faith and love alive in our veins. We want to blindly believe as we did like children and love always like the first time. The problem with mazes; you have very little idea where you are going. You cant see the path; only where u are; but you do get a great rearview mirror. Someone once said "we must begin with the end in mind." I believe our perceptions limit the true potiential of our minds. The universe is hidden right before our eyes.

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