I’ve been slowly reading the catalog put together by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in LA to accompany a retrospective exhibit of Hayao Miyazaki from 2021. The short essays capture and explain Miyazaki’s creative process and philosophies.
This morning, I felt specially moved by this quote from him, “Children are filled with…things so ancient that only their DNA remembers” when referring to the seemingly wise intuitions in children, and in his young characters. (Unfortunately the source isn’t clear.)
Children cannot name why or how they know what to do or how to connect to the world but they often seem to be more in tuned With the world while adults have mostly shed or hidden those connections in our DNA.
At this, what I think of as, my third stage of life, I would love to rediscover those intuitions and ancestral memories that maturation under societal directives might have concealed or stolen from me.
It could be a fun journey.
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Love this reflection. I’m so glad you are back doing your blog again. The format reminds me of Monica’s Alice bog. So clean and spare.
But the Miyazaki quote! I’m reminded of Wordsworth’s “Intimations of Immortality” when he writes of “Trailing clouds of glory do we come from God who is our home…” I’m typing from memory so the quote may not be entirely accurate. I’ve thought about this a lot.
When I worked with kindergartners in the library, I would sometimes be amazed at what they knew and how they thought. How much they had acquired in just 5 years of life! Or had some of their insights come from elsewhere. What mysterious, wonderful beings they were.
I’m also reviewing a little book on poetry — on how students or anyone discovers meaning in the empty spaces, in the wondering between the lines, beyond the words.
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