Belle was my favorite. (Well, until Jasmine, but that’s beside the point.)
I remember when it came out in the theater, my dad took my sister and I as a surprise. He gave us a hint, “It’s B and the B.” I didn’t get it. I heard “in” instead of “and”, and it just didn’t make any sense to me.
That was our thing. We went to the movies, stopping along the way to get Mike & Ike’s and Hot Tamales. I didn’t care much for either, and I don’t know whether I ever expressed that at the time. Maybe I did, but I don’t ever remember getting anything else.
Anyway, I wasn’t sure where this was going, and I’m still not. The phrase “Tale As Old As Time” just came into my mind, and I started typing. … Ahh, I censor myself. … As I stopped typing to “think” about what I wanted to say instead of simply allowing myself to express in the moment, I realized that was the point.
And I guess that’s what I was getting at about the candy too. I liked chocolate nonpareils and Twizzlers. Somewhere along the line, I stopped saying what I wanted. Or I hadn’t learned how. Sigh. Yeah, this one’s deep. (It’s already been almost two weeks, writing this.)
It’s calling my attention to my third eye. There’s a huge knot of energy there. It feels frozen. Like I’m frozen in a moment from the past. A past life? I’m censoring myself again. I close my eyes.
A see a horse. A Clydesdale.
A covered carriage.
Square. Up close. Right in front of me.
Snow falling. Big snowflakes.
A man with a lantern. He’s peering at me from above. He has a bulbous nose. He is wearing a black hooded cloak. Is this some scene from a movie I’ve seen? (Questioning myself.)
I fell.
The sky is blue, but it is night. There is a lake nearby.
No… I didn’t fall. I was hiding.
I told him I fell.
I lied.
I open my eyes.
Interesting.
My third eye feels lighter, less dense. I understand now this was the first time my soul chose to lie.
There’s more there to see. (For me.) And I will close this out to go explore that more.
(I’ve got to admit, I did not expect starting with Beauty and the Beast to lead me here, and yet here I am.)
Tale as old as time. True as it can be.
