EVERY girl grows up listening to the tales of handsome princes riding in on white horses to save them from hours of boredom…Giggles. This was the perfect story because if it were true, we were beautiful princesses lavished with these brave knight’s attention. Sure we had to battle a few witches along the way but hey…we aren’t just pretty faces. Deep down we knew a good knight in shining armor when we saw them because we too knew the tricks of the trade; Had the wisdom to judge what was truly in a man’s heart.[WINK*]
Our parents passed along the dreams and hopes that their parents passed down to them…in this same simple, yet loving tradition: a bedtime story. In each telling the tale became first memory, then legend. Our dreams helped us live them, learn them. We learned what was right and wrong, learned to listen to our elders, learned to trust that if we were very good, good things would happen in the end…This belief is what helped create a nation, the United States of America. This immigrant spirit fed by deep roots in tradition from their home countries. The ultimate happily ever after…the American Dream.
WALT DISNEY was able to make these bedtime stories go BLUE RAY!!!”
Taking the bedtime stories that HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
made into legend to a level he could have only dreamed of. Walt Disney used the most cutting edge “IT” available to HIS time and brought social morality to the big screen.
Were both these famous men perhaps the pioneers of what is now known as SOCIAL NETWORKING? Were bedtime stories the original TWITTER?
My many visits to DENMARK have allowed me to walk in the footsteps of HANS himself. My eyes see much of what he must have seen, the country seems so modern yet somehow frozen in time: ambiance of magical possibility and awe. I first fell in love with PHOTOGRAPHY my first trip to Copenhagen. The summer’s beauty mixed with the country’s castles and history had me snapping pictures like an Asian tourist…oh wait, I was an Asian tourist, just a very very tall one, Giggles. I wanted to take just a piece of this tradition back home to share with my son and my family. Felt the need to show them how much like us they really were. How lucky the Danish were to have such good records of your long history simply in the very buildings you lived in.
My first trip was also when I fell in love with the Danish people and their views of life. Much the same as my family and community in central Florida, the nation prided itself on its focus on the environment and it’s children. I would walk through the park and indeed see fathers home early to take their children to play ball and tell tall tales of adventures! People cleaning up sidewalks together where some thoughtless person dropped rubbish, sharing thoughts of “what kind of people do this type thing?” We are all trying to do the same thing in the GLOBAL economy…spring cleaning. Taking inventory of where we are and making plans for where we are going.
Time passes, bad things may happen to good people…but in the end, the strong and the good survive. YES! There is such a thing as a SANTA CLAUS and there is a “Happily ever after…” out there for every girl and boy. Step up and claim yours, start today. Live the dream you want to live…
“we can achieve what our mind’s believe.”
*Kisses Kimber
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