SPIRITED AWAY!
When taking a casual drive through country lanes recently I
chanced across a road that started as a regular town street but then twisted
and turned for about four-and-a-half miles until it ultimately became a much-narrower,
isolated, country track... ending in a forest near a river.
The whole journey was entirely tree-lined and magical in its essence. The climactic event within this
entire adventure… occurring about three-quarters of the way towards the end of
this road… was the glimpse of a strange native carving that mysteriously emerged from amongst the foliage beside
the road.
To be honest, I had to pinch myself at first as I felt I had stumbled into the opening sequence of Hayou Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away”… my most favorite of recent animated films. Sadly though, I never did find any Bath House or even any Spirits at the end of my drive. I did however name the carved figure “Miyazaki San”… and so, if ever I pass that way again, I will always respectfully tip my hat to it and thank it for the rare experience it has given me.
(I do of course every day tip my hat and thank the real 'Miyazaki San', for the wonderful animated masterpiece that triggered all these random experiences in the first place!)
To be honest, I had to pinch myself at first as I felt I had stumbled into the opening sequence of Hayou Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away”… my most favorite of recent animated films. Sadly though, I never did find any Bath House or even any Spirits at the end of my drive. I did however name the carved figure “Miyazaki San”… and so, if ever I pass that way again, I will always respectfully tip my hat to it and thank it for the rare experience it has given me.
(I do of course every day tip my hat and thank the real 'Miyazaki San', for the wonderful animated masterpiece that triggered all these random experiences in the first place!)
Tony. :^{)}=-
Sooo Cool!
That's awesome that this scene would greet whoever would venture down this road...
and some folks still insist that there is no magic (magical places)in the world.
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That movie blew me away the first time I saw it.
"Triplets of Belleville" is also a modern masterpiece.
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