I was going to write about spring...

I was going to write about spring but my mum came to visit during March break and we planned a couple of small trips, then I got caught up in deck furniture and then I had to euthanize my cat.  Now it's late spring, and I'm in it, as opposed to anticipating it.

Also I have been sleeping very poorly which has left me with zero motivation for actually creating anything.  I think about stuff, but I am not actually making it right now.  That ends today because I got enormously inspired by a little movie I saw on Netflix called The Unicorn Store.

All the actors in this movie are brilliant.  Just so fantastic. And the story is a great one.  Sadly it was a little slow for me.  I have no idea why.  But what made me sit up and take notice were the words:

Samantha Montgomery McIntyre is brilliant.  As the screenwriter of this production her script was so darn clever.  Satirical and whimsical, funny, real and it spoke to the very heart of  growing.  I am in the midst of trying very hard to like brown rice.   For Samantha it seemed to be kale.  It's not just about food, although the food bit is hilarious.  How much else are we trying very hard to like that is in fact disgusting.

Do you ever hear a personal truth that rings like a large gong?  Reverberating around in your skull, hitting all your feelings, making you laugh out loud with it's truth?

This is where I've become a Montgomery McIntyre fan for life.  Never mind that the question was asked as a type of creepy flirtation, the main character answered with such truth.  My truth.  I still operate under this desire of not being a great disappointment; I think maybe to myself most of all.

Brie Larson did a hell of a job embodying these words.

What I loved most of all was the idea of finding your personal unicorn.  And then living life to accommodate it. So often I get bogged down in the minutia of life, or the anxiety of doing it right, or the simmering resentment of a negative attitude.  The sheer earnestness and youthful  innocence of this movie's narrative leaves me inspired.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go build a stable for my unicorn.