Have you ever seen the movie “Through the looking glass”? It is a wonderful movie. How many of you have thought about the meaning of it all? My first thought is “why is she not elated about the creative possibility of her unique situation”, but that’s another blog 
. There is one particular scene where Alice is talking to the cheshire cat and the dialogue is this:
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? said Alice. “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to” said the cat. “I don’t much care where” said Alice “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go” said the cat”
Alice is myopically focused. She just wants to get through the moment. She can not answer the very simple question “where do you want to get to”. For those of you who know the story, her myopic vision just keeps taking her to places she doesn’t want to be. That’s what happens with myopic vision. We keep ending up in places we don’t want to be because we are looking at momentary gratification and we miss details, and the potential if we can just press on and see the bigger picture.
By the end of the movie Alice develops a better type of vision, acute vision. This gets her home. Alice realizes her fear and how to conquer it. She realizes she wants to be home and figures out how to do it. She starts noticing details that would have led her from fear to courage, which is essentially what she needed, much sooner. When we have acute vision, those momentary let downs do not seem so bad because we have a big picture vision and all we do will lead us to finish our portrait and help us pick the right brush…
OOOOO, that’s another blog, painting portraits, and there went a squirrel
Thanks for reading my brain splatter and have a fabulous day
