Feeding my psyche

For the first time in years I am still thinking about a movie I saw yesterday. Although I have seen many movies, Star Wars has reached deep down inside of me and tweaked many many parts of my entertainment desires.

It may not be perfect by someone's standards, but it came pretty close by mine. I realize it followed the old movie's form pretty closely, but those things happen in real life too. Children often follow in their parents' footsteps or turn directly around and go the other way. Old friends drift apart and come back together under unusual circumstances. Love is so much more than madcap adventures followed by falling into bed for explicit sex.

This movie feeds my imagination and feels plausible to me at this stage of my life.

I love Rey. She is a hero of gargantuan proportions. She doesn't need to be brash or crude to be strong. She is vulnerable, but not weak. She is the woman I dream of being. Finally, there is a woman character I wouldn't mind my granddaughters loving.

It's hard to talk about her without bashing most of today's heroines. She is elegantly wholesome with the sexual appeal of a strong confident real woman. She doesn't transform. She is.

And what better thing to show our children than to find who you are and just be it; without resorting to bizarre trappings or behavior or any other extreme striving.

If you nurture your own strengths, the extreme will find you.

I am still basking in a few hours of good music, story and characters whose nostalgia, depth and humor tapped into my deepest psyche.