Rainy Summer Days are Perfect Movie Days! Tomorrowland, here I come.
Yesterday I was transported back to my 12 yr old self. The dark movie theater, fresh popcorn, a Walt Disney movie, and me….all the alchemy needed to immerse myself into non-thinking mode, and be carried back in time. “Tomorrowland” sounded like fun, but I had no idea where it would take me.
Our wonderfully cute little theater in town can show 4 movies at a time, each an intimate, small group setting. Surrounded by ‘other’ 12 yr olds, those who are really about 12, and other interested ‘grown ups’, I felt like I was at the Olympic theater on 22nd St. with my friends on a rainy humid Chicago Sunday, waiting for the matinee to begin.
Disney immediately sets the pace in a wonderfully colorful, action packed combination of robots, inventions, gadgets, monorails, rocketman jet packs, and Disney’s Tomorrowland, moving me through a land I seem to know so well. It’s as though every feeling of the Magic Kingdom, stored up over the years, was revisited again in this engaging story of imagination, reality, love, and magic.
Never knowing what to expect, unable to anticipate the next step, enabled me to fully participate in the Dream. I came out of there filled with lightness, happiness, a spark of joy, and a throwback feeling that it was time to call ‘Mom’ to come pick us up. It’s as though a very familiar Memory swept through my whole body, filling it with hope and sweet goodness. These are the kinds of ‘in the moment’, never to be duplicated, hands on, experiential, especially difficult to put into words, highlights of life. Definitely a full consciousness experience taken out of Time and Space. It was a Twilight Zone moment!
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