In SF it's ok to look like a tourist, no one cares.
In most cities people hate tourists, they treat them terrible, and they stand out. In SF. Everyone is welcome, and no one really can tell.. Where you might be from .
I love big hearts. I'm attracted to people with big hearts, and mine is no tourist. It knows the way to all it's beautiful sights . My heart is an instrument of peace and pride and it's just sure it won't be happy without the last person it loved, it pangs, it is heavy and it flutters.
I tell it to be calm, I give it healing and peace, but if i try too hard it really starts to hurt. Art and life take time ..
I left that big heart in SF, and it might be just a memory. Sometimes memories are all we really ever have. -Good to remember.
In the fantasy book "Howl's Moving Castle" by the late Diana Wynne Jones she speaks of a wizard that eats people's hearts and the town gossips about it.
--Miyazaki made a film using this book and and the voice of Howl is Christian Bale. It's a wonderful rendition of this story utilizing a personalized style all his own. I really recommend it. Mostly because it clearly gives insights to women's struggles with fear of being alone and beauty, and for men it clearly speaks of the struggles of performing tasks that require wizard like perfection and talents. Mysteries of inner personalities ebb and flow through the characters as they rise to meet the kind of challenges that require super natural strength.
The detail of the artwork is tremendous and shouldn't be overlooked but the artist composes his own tender soundtrack as well.
Not just flight of fancy it's dark and cruel as the real world but fantastically presented to the heart. Watch this movie, feel your heart expand. Enjoy the calm that only Miyazaki can share.
There are many wonderful lines in Howl's Moving Castle, but I like the part where Kalcifer the fire says if you can help me break my spell, ill help you break yours.
Isn't that what we all really want? Break my spell of this mysterious loneliness and uncertainty.
Good thoughts in great animation.
Zen.
Liz
