Blue & Yellow Post

Counting to 50 July 12, 2008

Posted by Liz Mead in : Matters Blue , trackback

This afternoon I took tea at the Queen Vic with my gorgeous gal-pal-paola. What a well spent afternoon.

Paola is a gifted film maker, writer and human being. She is also – and I’m sure she’d concur- a little on the looney side; mind you no closer to or farther from madness than me. A delightful divine madness in pursuit of pure spirit, less ego, forgiveness, truth, patience, authenticity and lasting love. A quest to last a life time.

I asked to meet her because I am nutting out an idea of interviewing some people for a book. It was a fruitful meeting where she helped me understand the logistics of delivering and shaping a potentially great idea. In other words, she kept it real.

She’s in love – which provides an inspiring and delightful mind-set. All possibilities are welcome, all dreams are possible, all reality is sweeter, finer and all feelings are transcended. Of course one also resides in a state of suspended horny-ness. I wish her much of this state, much lasting love and a strengthening belief in her self as a result of the alchemy.

The stories we tell ourselves about the lives we lead can provide a rich vein of wisdom and analysis. They become heightened with seminal moments such as falling in love. What a great way to find out more about each other – “Tell me the story of your life”.

But Is that story of that life of interest to others? Is all of it, or part of it more interesting. Does it make the “big” lessons more understandable because of the narrative?

There’s plenty of research that such a process provides insights into thematic “clusters”, trends, blocks, oversight, obsessions and the great “unsaid” of our lives. How splendid to gather the stories of others. And is it possible to then re-tell them and keep it honest. Don’t we filter? Dont we assume? Don’t we cloud it with presumptions of what would be interesting to others – clinical analysis of someones disclosure.

This was the challenge I set my darling Paola – and she came up with some very profound insights – I expect because she’s living her life - in line with the “narrative arc”. There is the right amount of drama, challenge, quest, faith, longing and inspiration.

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