Dear dahlings,
What is a dahling? What is a darling?
Well, a dahling is a phonetic way of calling you my darling. It is the way women moviestars said “darling” back when all the moviemaking started. The black-and-whites. The feisty gals with their hats and their suits and their soft hair and their anger, all moving through to show feminine strength and feminine personality. Sometimes the ladies were mad, other times they were sad, and sometimes happy. They shared their feelings, cheerio. They were not ashamed to have them.
And a darling? A darling is a bird. Not literally a bird, but what you call a beloved, the way you might endear a bird who is near.
Have you found yourself, in any recent moment, Reader, stopping yourself wherever you are to watch the birds? They fly, they land. They hop. They come in ones, sometimes twos, and other times, whole little communities. They are beloveds, just like you. Please stop whatever you are doing when they greet you. Their messages of life are worth a pause.
This Ms. Wonderful venture here, is a film club, little chicken. Sit back and watch. Let’s practice breathing. Let’s practice knowing in ways we do not already know. The knowing exists below consciousness, often. It manifests in bodies, in nerves. It is the awareness of something beyond the conscious, thinking brain. Maybe there are no words for some things.
We are living now on an earth that has many frailties. If you were to open up a news application, a website or feed, you would see fire, fire, of various forms, everywhere. All the atrocities. All the awfulness.
And much of it is true.
One cannot hide herself in a corner, shut down her heart, close her doors and sit in fear with a coffee cup, can she?
Well, she can, certainly.
My request, though, and what I implore, is another way.
Let’s dance, all together. A dancing that is pure.
(For those who are open.)
This film club is focused on love, rather than animosity. And we offer space for all the big questions of the age—what is love? How are we to live? What is worth asking for? What needs are being met here? What plenty abounds? How can we manage the wickedness we face in this world?
Be with me, for this time. Let us listen and share.
If you like the following film, and you choose to be part of The Ms. Wonderful Film Club, tell me, bird. I will be closing off access to the general public very soon and keeping this group small, focused. We are more potent that way.
The deadline is approaching, in which you decide.
Love and hugs,
Ms. Wonderful