I revisited A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle a few years ago. It was a book that painted a universe far different than the one I inhabited in my small heartland town, filled with people who I felt apart from. Despite being astounded that I reread it in its entirety in somewhere around an hour, I could feel the sensations it unleashed in me, all those years ago, about the possibilities of life and the power of love. It is with a vivid intensity that they linger in my mind palace to this day.
This book was a very strong instigator of the way I have played the game of life. I am not afraid of inquiring about the mysteries surrounding our existence. I feel it a privilege to dwell in the uncertain and unknown. And I find it a gift to be able to bring just a sliver more clarity to the extent of what is truly possible, when we unleash our minds to travel each day, open to being WONDERSTRUCK!
It surely cannot be anything but infinitely curious that the books genesis is in line with this segment of my own journey....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wrinkle_in_Time
“The book was written between 1959 and 1960.[4] L'Engle wrote repeatedly about the writing of the story and the long struggle to get it published. In A Circle of Quiet (1972),[5] she explains that the book was conceived "during a time of transition." After years of living in rural Goshen, Connecticut and running a general store, L'Engle's family, the Franklins, moved back to New York City, first taking a ten-week camping trip across the country and back again. L'Engle writes that "we drove through a world of deserts and buttes and leafless mountains, wholly new and alien to me. And suddenly into my mind came the names, Mrs Whatsit. Mrs Who. Mrs Which."[6] This was in the spring of 1959. L'Engle was reading about quantum physics at the time, which also made its way into the story.[7] When she completed the book in early 1960, however, it was rejected by at least 26 publishers, because it was, in L'Engle's words, "too different," and "because it deals overtly with the problem of evil, and it was really difficult for children, and was it a children's or an adults' book, anyhow?"[2][6]"
Isn't it ironic that the overt dealing with evil and it's antidote, love, stuck with me for close to 40 years?
Having driven back and forth across the country in my own time of transition, I cannot help but wonder if I really am being shown to extend my independence, this independence day, to create. I've felt drawn to writing a screenplay for some time, although the first one dwelling inside me is too difficult due to being an ensemble piece with lots of dialogue – I'm going to need a collaborator to pull that one off. But what has arisen this last year – my mid-life crisis journey - is introspective and prime material for an independent film.
{A theatrical feature film adaptation of the novel is under production by Walt Disney Pictures, to be released in 2018. The film is directed by Ava DuVernay and stars Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Rowan Blanchard, and Zach Galifianakis. } The film is scheduled to be released on March 9, 2018 in IMAX
This line from the character synopsis about Meg Murry absolutely hurt me: “Although she has the brains to accomplish difficult tasks, she rarely puts her strengths to use” This is the sort of sentiment, I've kept locked in my own tesseract for all of my life, waiting for my life to intersect the cast of characters who would be there to support me when those uncertainties of life spooked me silent.
I started this post as a document with the title Independence, for obvious reasons.
Secure in my contrariness, I decided today to celebrate Interdependence. The way that we are, at each unfolding moment, a product of all we have read, seen, experienced, and felt. What I chose to do next affects all the people around me in a multiverse of ways.
Could an commenting ode to a childhood book, be a direct subconscious appeal to fold together all the intervening years - a command to stick with using love to defeat the evil effects of fear?
~~~
This is published post 6 in my 30 posts in 30 days writing challenge.
A comment from this last post sparked this journey through the time in my mind.
~~~
I am a Soulpreneur Strategist using my technical consulting background and heart-centered communications skills to help the independent healers of the world run their businesses, create their websites, and maintain a social media presence without taking away from the time they need to devote to their clients. Find out more or buy one of my books on my virtual home > www.InsightsOccur.com
