We just returned from celebrating John’s completion of the McCrossan Program with dinner at the cheap theatre and a movie. While the under 13 crowd (plus Rand) saw Chicken Little, the rest of us (besides Kyle and Mike who were snowboarding) saw In Her Shoes. We then had Mexican food for dinner, John’s choice.
The movie was an incredible statement about not separating siblings in foster care. Now, they didn’t know that when they were making it, but it so shows how much the oldest sibling is the keeper of the memories for the the younger ones. I won’t give away the whole movie, but it is about sisters who survived a somewhat traumatic early childhood with a mentally ill mother. Part of the movie includes this poem, which can SO explain the sibling bond shared by those who have lived through tragedy together. It is by e. e. cummings.
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
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