Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

My husband and I watched "Saving Mr. Banks" again last night. The acting is marvelous, and the story of P.L. Travers and her adventures with Walt Disney riveting. The compassion Walt Disney showed to her may be fiction, but it is touching, and I love that he knew intuitively that she had a childhood wound that had not healed, because he had one himself. By creating Disneyland he gave himself a different childhood than the harsh one he experienced. And ultimately, he offered Travers a different ending than the one she endured in real life. Paul Giamatti is wonderful as well, as a father with a handicapped child. Who was it that said that we keep struggling with what happened to us up to age eight for the rest of our lives? It's often true. Looking back, I see three big moves in my life, the death of my favorite uncle, and the loss of my huge family by moving first down South, then to the West Coast. Starting over three times. My sense of being "new" permeates my childhood, and also people I love dying, and no one willing to talk about it. We must take a good long look at early childhood, and as uncomfortable as it makes us, come to terms with it. A very challenging task.