Nekyia's Threshold

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When World's Collide
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2007-01-10 15:40:00
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Eminem - Just Lose It. "Come here little kiddes, guess who's back. Ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh!"What a perfect song to have on while I write about my day. A conglomeration of childish soundsand grown up ideas.My little girl, a fifth grader who takes pride in her ability to inspire the fear of a good beat down in boys much bigger than she is by virtue of her fearsome energetic personality alone, went on her first "date". She likes a boy from her class and he likes her. When I asked her what she liked about him she told me that he was "clean". I took the opportunity to expound on the joys of hygiene and wonder aloud why I still had to almost make it a direct order to gether in to the tub to enjoy some hygiene herself. (Instance ONE of world's colliding).Sparkling Boy and Bouncy Daughter wanted to see the new version of Charlotte's Web. After some intense negotiations with Protective Daddy, it was agreed that this could be accomplished if I provided transportation and maintained a physical presence in the movie theater. So Young Mister Sheen spent his money on two tickets to the early afternoon show, and I provided popcorn and sodas all around. (Instance TWO of world's colliding).(side trip alert: Does Akon have no other sources of inspiration for his songs beyondstrippers? Or is it only strippers that manage to inspire hit songs?)I reigned in supreme solitude in the front row area of the theater. Another mother withtwo young children took over the mid-section of the theater. Young Love took two seats in the very back row at the top of the theater. My solitude worked well for me since I almost immediately sprang a leak from the corners of my eyes once the movie started. Luckily I had a fistful of napkins to mop up both popcorn butter and tears.Everybody should go and see Charlotte's Web. It's funny, wise, tense, and it explored issues of prejudice, loyalty, justice, friendship, growing up and legacy in bites small enough to slip into the psychological gullet of the very young or even the small minded old. The mother of the young girl determined to raise the runty piglet, Wilber, spent some time in the doctor's office talking about her concern for the amount of time her daughter spent in the barn with just the company of animals and her storybooks. The doctor told the mother that it was a common condition called "childhood" and that it was something that unfortunately would be outgrown. I went through more than a few napkins with the eye leakage that manifested at those words. The eyes in the back of my head saw Sparkling Boy and Bouncy Girl. (Instance THREE of world's colliding).(side trip alert: A few nights ago I woke up and saw an alligator in the thinning forest behind my Michigan house. Winter rain had left a landscape that looked swampish in the night. I called my husband and pulled him to the window, pointing at the alligator. He expressed amazement and pulled me back to bed and covered me up. The next day I found my alligator again. It turns out it's two tree stumps during the day. TRICKY.)Wilber the pig told Charlotte that he didn't deserve all the work and kind words she had spun over his head. He said it while the gentle wind blew the word HUMBLE back and forth in the web. She told him that her time was done. She had been born, she had lived, and now her magnus opus was her newly created egg sac - 514 children waiting to born. Her legacy. The eyes in the back of my head saw bouncy girl behind me and then flashed images of my other children, busy with lives that at that moment didn't include me lurking in the flesh. My legacy. More napkins disintegrated in a salt water stream. (Instance FOUR of world's colliding).The movie ended. I sniffled. Dabbed. Young Love rejoined me. After we dropped sparkling boy off at his house my daughter climbed in to the front seat beside me and looked at me. She said, "You've got something stuck on the corner of your eye." It was a piece of napkin. I pulled it off and she told me that she wanted her blankey, she was tired. (Instance FIVE of world's colliding).The people of the world of Charlotte's Web saw more of the miracles of every day after they'd experienced the spider's talent. The miracles that were always there, but they hadn't hadthe eyes to see. Spin a web. See.