I'm a Girl

 

I attended a short film festival called LunaFest (See Tinsel & Tine post)

One of the films was called I'm a Girl by Susan Koenen (Amsterdam)

The film featured a series of interviews with a 13 year-old "girl" Joppe, who was actually born a boy.

Now from time to time, we've seen this, nature seems to get the X & Y chromosome all mixed up, creating a boyish girl or a girlish boy or an androgynous being. Which is an unfortunate cross to bear through life.

However, this young girl, Joppe is different - not only did she seem amazingly well-adjusted, confident and open;  she truly is a girl!  There's just no male energy to be found anywhere.  Yes, she has a penis and she's not developing curves, (can't be given female hormones until she's 16) but she is every sense through and through female - now. I say now because they showed pictures of her as a baby up til about 4 years-old and she did NOT appear to be a feminine baby, she/he was a boy.

This got me to thinking less about science, DNA, psychology  etc... and more about a spiritual explanation. Could it be possible that little boy died in his sleep one night and at the same time, some little girl died too. Only instead of crossing over, that little girl decided to inhabit that boy's body. Perhaps her spirit being stronger than his, was able to reanimate his body. The next morning no one would know the difference until little by little the young boy starts acting and desiring things more female in nature.

Who can say, life is so mysterious...

Versatile Little Symbol

Why does such an innocuous little symbol have so many monikers?

Number Sign

Hashtag

 Pound Sign

&

Tic Tac Toe

Orange Moon

It was this kind of moon tonight. 

Technically, what is referred to as a Harvest Moon, except that term is really reserved for full moons in autumn.

When I see a full moon, especially one as big and close and orange as the one tonight.  I feel excitement! It's like I can't contain myself; and then I realize there's really nothing to do but look at it, or perhaps try to capture it with your camera phone.

I asked myself tonight, what is it that would satisfy my relationship with the moon? Where do I want to direct my excitement?

My answer: I realized I wish on nights like this, there were still pagan festivals, where one could dance around a bonfire, naked and fornicate in a clearing in the woods. Everyone laughing out loud with joy and abandon. Not in worship of the moon, but rather in acknowledgment and awe.

10 Best Films I (Tinsel & Tine) Saw in 2011

Cross-over post - at the time of posting this list, I had wanted to keep my commentary of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and bartering for skiwear at the top of Tinsel & Tine, so I posted my year-end 10 Best Films of 2011 here on my musing's site.

By this time last year, I was in accordance with the rest of the film community and was excited by such films as The Fighter, The King's Speech, Black Swan and Toy Story 3.  This season, there's really nothing that stellar.  Although admittedly, I've yet to see Ides of March and probably will never see War Horse.

So Here's it is - the order is a combination of enjoyment and craft:

1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2. Martha Marcy May Marlene
3. X-Men:First Class
4. The Help
5. Limitless
6. Shame
7. Circumstance
8. Toast
9. Kinyarwanda
10. Win Win

Although my list may be somewhat eclectic, these were the films that immediately came to mind when I sat down to do a top 10 list for T & T.  Each of the above films has a combination of seamless storytelling and characters that just struck a chord within me.

Runners up were: MoneyBall, I Will Follow, Contagion and Midnight in Paris.

Words to Live By

I've been watching reruns of Dynasty on my phone through this free site called TV.com.  It's entertaining, but the show really doesn't hold up. I'd forgotten what a ridiculous parody it was on daytime serials.

One thing that I am loving is its ability to bring to my mind words (thoughts) to the effect of: Opulence, Grandeur, Elegance, Abundance, Glamour, Excess, Romance, Sex, Sumptuousness, Lavish, Pampered, Shopping, Fabulousity, Funds, Privilege, Beauty, Idleness, Posh, Sophistication, Parties, Panache and not completely in the full sense of the word, but I have to add Freedom.

Don't you wish this statement were true?

From Geezees Art

It would take so much pressure off if you really could believe that everything you're doing and more importantly, not doing, is not adding up to a waste of time; but rather, no matter how off the track you think you are, you're really on track.

But if it were true, and we all were "Right On Time", when would we recognize it? In the afterlife? 

Then, we come back and do it all again, totally forgetting everything we discovered in the afterlife about our past life, and once again feel like we are wasting time.

11.11.11

text and image from Awakening the Bay - The Holistic Network

Many believe 11.11.11 is a marker for the evolution of human consciousness, a time of greater awakening. Align more fully with Love, our essence, and connect as a community.

I wanted to do something today that signified this awareness, but couldn't think of anything or anywhere significant to mark the ocassion.  So, I like others, set my phone alarm, went outside at 11:11am and said a special prayer of alignment for me, my family and friends and for the coming of the new earth.  Will do so again at 11:11pm