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The drama in the dream.
Photo courtesy of Jenny Wood (J603)
Just about every fairy tale has a dark side, and Disney tales are no exception. Princesses were always dealing with some sort of seriously twisted drama, from poisoned apples to enslavement. Even innocent Mickey messes with magic and ends up flooding the sorcerers castle.
You can pick your favorite Disney Dark Deed, I won't list them, so feel free to post yours in the comments.
My point is that I think Walt Disney understood a really important truth. Brightness shines brighter against a dark backdrop.
Or, in the case of this photo, the shiny new cruise ship shines brighter behind the old, scary, fanged pirate ship.
Right now the Wicked Witch is threatening Dorothy over her sparkly ruby slippers. (On my TV in the background, of course, not in real life!) When I think about it, those slippers seemed MORE precious because the Witch wanted them so badly. I remember, as a little girl, wanting a pair of ruby slippers SO badly. These weren't just another pair of pretty shoes. These shoes had DRAMA! Why they even made lightning when the Witch tried to touch them. How cool is that?
If you look closely at this photo, you can see something is in the air. You can see a dark shadow in the upper right corner. The photographer told me she snapped it just before a big lightning storm. Can't you feel that wind starting to blow? Can you smell the electricity? Somehow the water looks as if the storm has already started in the background. If you try, can you feel that scary feeling when a thunder storm is approaching and you are out in the middle of the ocean not knowing quite how bad it will be? What a strange adrenaline rush.
I remember one cruise on the Norwegian Sea. The sauna is on the top deck, and you need to walk outside to get back into the ship. I was sitting in the sauna when I heard the most eerie sound ever. I stepped outside to find that I literally could not see my hand in front of my face. We had rolled into a fog thicker than death and, apparently, the Captain was sounding the foghorn. I was all alone on the top deck, walking blindly towards a vague light. The fog was so thick it felt like I might unknowingly step up onto it and end up walking overboard into the ocean. It was one of the creepiest moments in my life, but I decided to turn it into fun. I let myself stand there on deck, completely blinded, and smell the thick wet air. When I moved my hand through it, I could swear I could feel it just as much as I could feel the boat engine shaking under my feet. I turned a few circles and completely lost my orientation until the fog lifted enough to catch a glimpse of the light again or the big smokestack would pop out of the mist. The foghorn was SO ungodly loud that I jumped every time it sounded, but the fear was not entirely bad. It was drama of the most unique sort.
And so, I challenge you to consider how the challenges, the pain, and the darkness that you may be experiencing right now could possibly be making your story more interesting. Maybe it is making the prize more valuable. Maybe the freedom from whatever-it-is will be more sweet.
Isn't the dream somehow more interesting when you add the drama?
I know that cruise ship is much more interesting because of the scary ghost ship right in front.
What do you think?
Just about every fairy tale has a dark side, and Disney tales are no exception. Princesses were always dealing with some sort of seriously twisted drama, from poisoned apples to enslavement. Even innocent Mickey messes with magic and ends up flooding the sorcerers castle.
You can pick your favorite Disney Dark Deed, I won't list them, so feel free to post yours in the comments.
My point is that I think Walt Disney understood a really important truth. Brightness shines brighter against a dark backdrop.
Or, in the case of this photo, the shiny new cruise ship shines brighter behind the old, scary, fanged pirate ship.
Right now the Wicked Witch is threatening Dorothy over her sparkly ruby slippers. (On my TV in the background, of course, not in real life!) When I think about it, those slippers seemed MORE precious because the Witch wanted them so badly. I remember, as a little girl, wanting a pair of ruby slippers SO badly. These weren't just another pair of pretty shoes. These shoes had DRAMA! Why they even made lightning when the Witch tried to touch them. How cool is that?
If you look closely at this photo, you can see something is in the air. You can see a dark shadow in the upper right corner. The photographer told me she snapped it just before a big lightning storm. Can't you feel that wind starting to blow? Can you smell the electricity? Somehow the water looks as if the storm has already started in the background. If you try, can you feel that scary feeling when a thunder storm is approaching and you are out in the middle of the ocean not knowing quite how bad it will be? What a strange adrenaline rush.
I remember one cruise on the Norwegian Sea. The sauna is on the top deck, and you need to walk outside to get back into the ship. I was sitting in the sauna when I heard the most eerie sound ever. I stepped outside to find that I literally could not see my hand in front of my face. We had rolled into a fog thicker than death and, apparently, the Captain was sounding the foghorn. I was all alone on the top deck, walking blindly towards a vague light. The fog was so thick it felt like I might unknowingly step up onto it and end up walking overboard into the ocean. It was one of the creepiest moments in my life, but I decided to turn it into fun. I let myself stand there on deck, completely blinded, and smell the thick wet air. When I moved my hand through it, I could swear I could feel it just as much as I could feel the boat engine shaking under my feet. I turned a few circles and completely lost my orientation until the fog lifted enough to catch a glimpse of the light again or the big smokestack would pop out of the mist. The foghorn was SO ungodly loud that I jumped every time it sounded, but the fear was not entirely bad. It was drama of the most unique sort.
And so, I challenge you to consider how the challenges, the pain, and the darkness that you may be experiencing right now could possibly be making your story more interesting. Maybe it is making the prize more valuable. Maybe the freedom from whatever-it-is will be more sweet.
Isn't the dream somehow more interesting when you add the drama?
I know that cruise ship is much more interesting because of the scary ghost ship right in front.
What do you think?
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Tags: cruise, jenny wood, pirate ship, sandra bostwick blog
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what a cool pic!0 Pixie Dust
Posted 12-27-2009 at 08:28 PM by 4Disney2 
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That's a loaded question Sandy...0 Pixie Dust
Posted 12-27-2009 at 10:02 PM by A.Daley
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OK... FINE!...
When I was visiting DW in March, I was in the lady's room, I went into the handicap stall with Alice to help her with the potty. I noticed the cleaner's stuff was left out, I also heard my Mom saying to someone... "be careful, if you leave it all out long enough, she may end up scrubbing everything for you!"
I realized she meant me... being a cleaning lady. So when I came out, it was a cleaning lady, and I told her that I was a cleaning lady as well back home. I told her how I would love to have her job in Tomorrowland.
She laughed and told me "The filth she has to clean up here in the Magic Kingdom is no more magical than the filth I clean up back home!"
I had convinced myself that my "cinderella" job was only respected and tolerable if it was somewhere like Disney... I am glad she reminded me that crap is crap, filth is filth, no matter who made it and where it was made.
... I'd still rather clean up crap there...0 Pixie Dust
Posted 12-27-2009 at 10:39 PM by A.Daley
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Words to live by!
I don't know why, but that story reminded me of a student. The assignment was to draw holiday wishes on a card for his parents. He drew a BIG poo, then told me it was a plastic poo. I felt bad about it, but when I told his Mom as I apologized for the card, she informed me that he was aspiring to be a comedian and, in fact, plastic poo was on top of his holiday wish list.
If I'd known that, I'd have slapped some glitter on it and let him finish the card in peace!0 Pixie Dust
Posted 12-27-2009 at 10:47 PM by Sandra Bostwick
Updated 12-27-2009 at 10:53 PM by Sandra Bostwick -
Well to me Being in a wheelchair has a lite side to and a dark side to it. The dark side if my chair goes out or I get suck in a hole hoping someone come by to help or don't transfer right to one chair to another it become a nightmare. Also the way people treat you if you are with others. Then the light side getting in my own line at WDW or DL, nice parking place, and I don't get trier quicker if I'm zooming around. The only place that there is advantage and disadvantage at the same time is in air traveling, one I get to go on the plane first then get off last hoping there is a chair for you waiting. They either bring your own chair to you or have something happen to it make you wait in the baggage claim area. But it is the challange that keep me going and good things always come out of the dark moments.
The Davy Jones ship Makes the Dream ship look even bigger and mightier. But the DJ ship look as it could do some really bad damage to a big ship like that.0 Pixie Dust
Posted 12-28-2009 at 10:27 PM by TNTWheels
Updated 12-28-2009 at 10:55 PM by TNTWheels (correction)
