I Am the Light

Nothing says morning like good coffee and good music.  In an effort to inspire the kung fu clean up of Cherry Valley and put Humpty Dumpty back together again I decided to find some tunes.  Of course, finding tunes usually is a wormhole of sorts sucking me into my online forest where I can linger for a while.

While there is still coffee to be consumed there is no rush so I decided to bring you a little light in the form of a song…

(Don’t see the player?  Click here and sing along)

The last weeks have been a tornado of sorts so it is only fitting that, of course, that I would end my week with ruby slippers and a confirmation that there really is no place like home.  Im not sure if I look for metaphors or if they find me but it is uncanny how often my world synchronizes into living poetry.

In Swarovski’s infinite inspired wisdom they (we, I should say) comissioned a remake of the Ruby Slipper to commemorate the original and, now, remake of The Wizard of Oz.  It can not be overstated that, as a girl who grew up in Kansas, Dorothy’s journey and her return to her humble surroundings in the middle of the breadbasket were often a topic of conversation.  “Have you ever seen a tornado?”  Yes.  “Does Kansas really look like that?”  Parts do, yes.  This collaboration is one of many that makes me proud and excited to work where I work and yesterday the entire magic collection was in our Showroom.

It shocked me, and saddened me in a way, that almost 100% of my colleagues here had NO IDEA what the Wizard of Oz is beyond ’some musical.’  I tried to explain the iconic nature of this film and ended up comparing the meaning of the ruby slipper to Cinderella’s glass variety.    The very act of conveying the bigness of the Wizard of Oz brought me all the way back around to the beginning of my own arc in this world….my roots.  I was a little girl growing up in the middle of America dreaming of all the places I would go, hoping that my own life would take me to Oz and then back again.  It then occured to me that it has.

there’s no place like home…

…and now it’s time to clean it.