From Mars to Marceline@

Disney Perfectionism

2012-01-13T10:05:00.000-08:00

Perfectionism is integrity: the drive to reflect one's soul on what one does.
It is coherence: the wish to make the best, if one is making something at all.
It is dignity: the effort to give the best of oneself
It is courage: the absence of self-sparing
It is mystical: the obliging of wholeness and impeccability. Like Jesus said: "Ask to be perfect, knock, and the door shall be open"
Walt Disney was always knocking, and having the door opened. That's why we have gems like "Snow White".... (Disneyssence

Disney Purity

2012-01-06T10:51:00.000-08:00

      In the movie clip "How Walt Disney's Cartoons are Made", one can see young Walt introducing the seven dwarfs of Snow White.
     The pride and care he describes them with transmits the innocence of a boy talking about his favorite toy, but the awe of a creator in love with his universe. The respect with which Disney holds each dwarf, pushing it to the front, as he characterizes it, his touching honesty in doing so, expresses an integrity as immaculate as that of Snow White.
       Most remarkable is how, at the two last dwarfs, he introduces Grumpy by skipping Dopey, so as to save Dopey to the very end, like a kid that keeps the “treat” for dessert.
     "And last but not least”, Disney says of Dopey, proceeding: "He is nice” and, looking at the camera, concludes: “ but sort of silly”.
     The smile that accompanies these last four words, contrasting with the concentration Disney characterizes the other dwarfs, like a happy-ending to the whole introduction, is finally relaxation and self-satisfaction.
     It turns the restrictiveness of “but sort of silly” into a blessing.

Disney 2012 !

2012-01-01T15:25:00.000-08:00

Let's believe in 2012!
To make believe is to pretend one believes, To believe on purpose is to make oneself believe, To make believe is to forget rationality, to believe on purpose is to overcome it, to make believe is to buy into, to believe on purpose is to edify, to make believe is to fantasize, to believe on purpose is to discover a deeper reality, to make believe is whimsical, to believe on purpose is redeeming, to make believe is the purity of childhood, to believe on purpose is the conquest of a rebirth! Walt Disney made believe and believed on purpose!
(Disneyssence)

Disney and Christmas

2011-12-25T09:46:00.000-08:00

‎"...It's not the days in life you remember, it's the moments." WALT DISNEY
A truth that could only come from genius, humbleness and an amazing capacity of appreciation. Xmas is the precious moment that the whole 365 days of the year culminate, like a constant rebirth of Jesus, the moment when transcendence and generosity became one.

Disney Universal Heart

2011-12-22T11:00:00.000-08:00

The universal heart loves, like you and me,
The universal heart speaks to all other hearts,
The universal heart is creativity, for creativity is undiscriminating givingness,
The universal heart transcends, for it is beyond yours and mine,
The universal heart is essence; what is beyond every particular heart,
The universal heart is timeless; it is never forgotten, it is always around,
The universal heart quenches different tastes, soothes all ages, inspires all races
Walt Disneys had a universal heart

Disney Essence

2011-12-17T23:13:00.000-08:00

Walt Disney remade himself, the Disney studio and Disney entertainment so many times, keeping, through all change, the Disney essence intact, like someone who, through disappointment, contingencies and randomness, is capable of finding the truth within. (Disneyssence)

Thank You Walt Disney!

2011-12-15T09:17:00.000-08:00

Beyond entertainment, Walt gave us magic.
Beyond laughter, he gave us healing;
Beyond delight, he gave us fantasy,
Beyond reality, he gave us awe;
Beyond everydayness, he gave us dream;
Beyond rationality, he gave us Faith;
Beyond appreciation, he taught us thankfulness and, with the storytelling Disney rides,
Beyond participation, he gave us contemplative experience; much
Beyond "escape", he gave us overcoming.
Thank you Walt Disney!
(Disneyssence)

Complete Disney

2011-12-09T10:37:00.000-08:00

Walt Disney had the spontaneity of nature,
The discipline of rationality,

And the Freedom of art.

Happy Birthday Walt Disney!

2011-12-05T10:22:00.000-08:00

110 years ago, Walt "landed" on this planet, all the way from, perhaps Mars... to Marceline (actually, to Chicago first). With his magic wand, Walt turned Marceline unique, like he did everywhere he went, for he always took the high road in the situations life presented to him. To take the high road may, after all, concern this power of seeing the uniqueness of a situation; to see it as a source of creativeness.

Wherever Walt Disney is, gotta be a happy place, even if for his just being in it....

Disney Heroism

2011-11-23T06:01:00.000-08:00

Jobs, like Walt Disney, was a hero, for heroes triumph over gratuitousness: whether dying or not, a hero is a hero for fulfilling a task, for "connecting the dots".
Heroes don't beat death, but its definitiveness.
The transcendence of heroism is to render gratuitousness worse
than death :
to show that if death is not
the worst of all things,
it cannot be final.
Heroism is the simultaneous assertion of eternity and meaningfulness.

Mystical Disney

2011-11-22T19:01:00.000-08:00

Mystical is he who sees meaning in mere action, mission in just living, soul in personality and his own, true will in what he discovers to be the will of God.

Disney Meaning

2011-11-22T13:47:00.000-08:00

Walt Disney joined past and future
Artifice and Nature
Technology and Fantasy
Unpredictability and Planning
Passion and Control
Pungency and Fun
Physical World and Soul
Disney animation is the power of turning meaning, that which is abstract, into visibility

Disney Charisma

2011-11-15T11:43:00.000-08:00

The inspiration Walt gave his team was courage; the right to be oneself.
Charisma is the power to inspire, in others, the right to be themselves.

Disney Decency

2011-11-15T11:35:00.000-08:00

Walt Disney's search for excellence was the unforgiving effort of constant self-overcoming.
Walt Disney's search was the eternal fight to keep his heart clean.

What Disney really gave the world was his measuring up to himself.

Disney Universality

2011-10-26T13:26:00.000-07:00

Disney animation, a reinvention of the physical element and its laws , discloses a world in which movement only happens as an expression of the story steps and shapes equally represent this all emcompassing meaning. It shows a physical visual rendering of thought: a world impregnated with mind. Thought and sight at the same time and in the same measure, it extends one's mind in physicality, and one's body in thought, like Like the world of toddlerhood, it thus offers an immediate and organic prolonging of the viewer himself, appealing, therefore, to anyone regardless of understanding, age and culture. Disney animation reverts to the common essence between what is seen, felt with the skin and lived with the heart; an essence that only infants naturally coexist with, but which is in the depths of the universal heart.

Disney Fulfilment

2011-10-17T23:54:00.000-07:00

Much beyond entertainment, Walt Disney fulfilled the universal need of warmth, fantasy, love and sugar: the need of being mothered and unconditionally welcome. Disney animation is, on the whole, sheer de- powering of hostility or aggressiveness, not just from "villains', but from the environment. When aggressiveness happens in the shorts, it turns into comedy and the aggressors are either ridiculed or redeemed. In "Raccoon Hunt", Mickey and Pluto set off to hunt a lovely coon, and the latter, picking up Mickey's coon hat, makes it look like a baby coon, which he then rocks, moving Mickey and Pluto with is feigned maternity. Its important to notice that there is no hinting of the human like coon seeing any tragedy or cruelty neither in his using the hat to save himself, nor in Mickey's wearing something made with his own kind. Everything is both cute and comedic. When aggressiveness happens in the feature films, the aggressors are simply vanquished. When it comes from the purely physical world, like in "Mickey Trailer", the "stretching" of physical laws themselves allows for no character to be really hurt. Disney animation on the whole fundamentally means a message of universal love. (Disneyssence)

Disney Wisdom

2011-08-01T08:45:00.000-07:00

To believe in Happy Endings is not necessarily think that all of one's endeavors will end the way one wants to,

but to simply know and feel that love is the force most responded to, with no self-interest, by animals, plants and humans!

Disney Depth

2011-06-13T12:09:00.000-07:00

Walt Disney went deep into everything he involved himself with. This is called commitment.
Walt Disney was passionate about everything he was committed to. This is called coherence.
Walt Disney was single minded with anything he did. This is called integrity.
Walt Disney literally and metaphorically brought depth to something that was literally and publicly shallow, like animation.

It is one's depth that makes both shallow and substantial really deep. This is called bliss.

Disney Competition

2011-03-16T14:33:00.000-07:00

Walt Disney lived well with competition not just because he was used to it and when things were smooth he felt like the ground could crack under his feet, but because he was naturally a giver and, in competition, one can give one's all, with no self-boicoting, no "I can't do" mantras, no hesitation.

Disney Perfection

2011-03-12T05:04:00.001-08:00

It was like the ballet choreographer said in "The Black Swan":
Perfection is not all about control, but abandonment too!"

Disney Purity

2011-03-05T08:11:00.000-08:00

There is no greater purity than to make the celebration of joy, faith and fantasy one and the same!

Disney Interpretations

2011-02-19T08:42:00.000-08:00

I finally watched a talk Gabler gave in 2006, about the biography he wrote of Walt Disney. Inasmuch as the writer gives much information on Walt, it is sad he has to use the material he learned from to fit his interpretations (or Mis-interpretations) which are in greatly part borrowed from Shickel anyway. Guess everybody knows the "control" explanation regarding the appeal of the parks and to also satisfy Walt's need for "escape". If there was anyone who looked at reality face to face in order to create everything he did, as well as to harmonize all the diversity he had under his lead, it was Walt Disney. To see, know, and handle reality was no easy feat, but no obstacle to him. I simply can't understand the impunity of attributing a mere need to escape to such person. Having control results from escaping reality, for Gabler. Invert the equation and perhaps one corrects the misinterpretation: Having control is facing reality so as to take the step beyond: artistic freedom, letting go or, the abandonment of fantasy.

Disney Warrior

2011-02-03T17:37:00.000-08:00

A warrior is someone who fights to give his best, before fighting against others,

A warrior is someone who competes to overcome himself, before trying to subdue others,

A warrior is someone whose greatest challenge is the conquering of his own shadow, rather than the power over enemies,

A warrior is someone who sees his adversary as someone to learn from, rather than to just crush,

A warrior sees life as the ultimate challenging and, yet, the biggest reward; the most serious commitment and, yet, the greatest adventure;

A warrior is someone who, like Walt Disney, was always self-improving, instead of just asserting himself!

Disney Example

2011-01-04T19:20:00.000-08:00

Walt Disney's curiosity was his being disarmed; his nakedness before life,

Walt Disney's courage was his dignity to fully own up to himself and go ahead with all of his being,

Walt Disney's confidence was his being true to himself, his being whole,

Walt Disney's constancy was his coherence; his capacity for committing,
Walt Disney's four Cs were his very purity!

A Disney New Year

2011-01-04T04:45:00.000-08:00

Gabler says his book is an attempt to decipher the mystery of Walt Disney. But genius is mystery itself, and if one doesn't resort to the mystical dimension (another mystery) one will not even brush its meaning. Lets start the year by paying homage to genius, and bow our head to mystery. And to continue the year, lets remember that the spirit of adventure and that of creativity, both in the Disney essence, have a common seed to be paid homage to. In creativity and adventure one lets go of fear and, in the nakedness of childhood, becomes able to respond to something beyond one's ego.

Happy Bday Walt Disney!

2010-12-05T20:25:00.000-08:00

One of the most beautiful things of Walt Disney's genius was a characteristic that also allowed him to be many years ahead of his time: his inventing interaction with fantasy and having had, himself, a constant, interactive experience with his audience. Disney knew or sensed that everything is interconnected and, be it entertainment or education, a growing population in a world of quick, eletronic comunication will only respond to interactive experience. In a world of speed, only impact and directed involvement communicates. The scission between subject and object, audience and stage, and action only tends to disappear with the technology of immediacy because of the lack of time to contemplate. From this, came, in art, contemplative interaction, for which, Disney threw the seed.

Disney Apple

2010-11-22T11:53:00.000-08:00

     Thanksgiving hasn't arrived yet, and there are already Santas in some malls. They stay on playing areas, abandoned to themselves, for, the kids much prefer to play in the available toys. Santa Claus, the one character that was once a Saint and revered as such, became something pathetic, replaceable and even, dare I say, disposable? Not yet disposable, but the prior step to it, which is, a tool for propaganda. The moral of the story is that greed for money took the place of magic, turned the sacred into something worse than the profane, the so called "propaganda". One doesn't know who to be sorrier for, Santa or children.
    Only someone saint-like can reconcile magic and capitalism, the profane and the sacred, like Walt Disney. What would he do, if he saw such demoralizing of Santa? One doesn't have to go that far, he would first take care of the Disney co itself needing of magic. One sees abandoned Santas and, on the other hand, children, youths and old alike teeming inside Apple stores, some with their
jaws dropped.
    Magic, if there's still some, went from something that, in its impossibility to be explained, carried one away, to something that is exact, more than explainable (for those who want to learn it) and manipulable. Magic became "apple" power. Like with the fall from paradise, the power of the apple dethroned innocence,
that availability to be dazzled without understanding how and why it dazzled you; without being in control!
Very much the contrary, the power of the apple is control itself!      I, like many, make use of this power, but I regard it as a mere tool. I am still waiting for the Disney Apple, the one that, rather than a tool for something, is the "something" itself, the "it", that first "Ahhhh" one used to utter when entering, for the first time, Main Street USA. How would Walt Disney make it anew?

Disney Analysis

2010-11-08T11:24:00.000-08:00

The letter Walt Disney wrote Don Graham shows something very important in Disney's guidance. The analysis of many different elements is fundamental to the reaching of integrity in the acting character, that is, unity of shae, movement, expression and action. Walt Disney seemed to know that, like in real life, maybe like with Disney's own personality, only the awareness of division can bring unity: Integrity is a conquest of reconciliation.

The Seriousness of Playing

2010-10-14T11:40:00.000-07:00

When you look at a miniature, be it a toy or a model, you immediately imagine a world happening in or through it. In creating such world you act like a god, and in living it in your imagination, you also become a character of it: a creature. In his love of toys and miniatures and in his creation therefrom, Walt Disney brought out the spirit of childhood as the common ground between ritualistic activity and playing: the right to invent characters; to become a character and to follow scripts.

Disney gave shape to the right of giving matter a meaning beyond its appearance: to turn the world into one big story.

Disney Devotion

2010-10-03T12:05:00.000-07:00

Devotion is part of charisma, and it is also a mystery of the heart. It is a link with some sort of transcendent certainty. According to Ward Kimball, Walt believed "devoutly" in his cartoons and could, therefore, convince the bankers to invest in them. Faithfulness to oneself is, paradoxically, faithfulness to what is beyond oneself. In being so much himself, Walt Disney was also the universal heart of his public.

Disney Reverence

2010-09-21T09:55:00.000-07:00

Like Walt Disney, who had ecology concerns much ahead of his time, the natives preserve nature because they revere it, and not just because of self-interest, like the "civilized" men, who finally realized that, by exhausting it, they will be victims themselves.

Disney Light

2010-09-16T15:03:00.000-07:00

It is reported that Walt Disney was an intense person. And he was a workaholic and he was always in the grip of passion.

   Intensity is living on edge: facing the abyss for the cause of depth;
   Intensity is creating: discovering ascension in vertiginous fall
   Intensity is burning: forgetting oneself for the sparkle of inspiration;

   Intensity is breaking limits: infringing the expected, for the killing repetition;
   Intensity is overcoming rules: Disobedience for the search of true self;
   Intensity is love: receiving infinitely and giving yet more;
   Intensity is flying: dispensing solidity to establish one's ground;
   Intensity is courage: finding assertion in surrender itself;
     Intensity is fire: self-consumption for the sake of light.

Disney Light

2010-07-25T11:55:00.000-07:00

Like the sea, Walt Disney was constant change in sameness.
Like the sun, he
had the light of ebullience and that of growth,
Like the air, that feels freer from the chains of gravity,
he could purify and uplift all of us in flight.

Happy 55th Disneyland!

2010-07-17T11:32:00.000-07:00

Great creations spring from the intimate, the everyday, what can "simply" be loved. Maybe because great creators are humble. The idea of Disneyland took shape from Walt Disney's taking his daughters to a common amusement park. Great creators don't ignore their truest voice; their own heart.

It is said that one man of vision can change the world. Walt Disney changed something bigger than the world: human psyche. In giving the real shape of the essence of America with Disneyland, in making fantasy touchable and available to be acted upon and, last but not least, creating the thematic experience, something that has spread to all aspects of life, he certainly upgraded the fundamental relation of men to artifice, play, art and faith itself.

Disney Quantum Physics : Talent and Freedom

2010-07-07T12:21:00.000-07:00

When Walt Disney, as a kid, drew faces and arms on the flowers his class in school was assigned to draw, he showed not just freedom from established rules, from anything established, in fact, but talent, imagination, and the very seed of all Disney animation, in which everything has a human heart. Like in quantum physics' discoveries, in Disney animation everything is interconnected and in mutual influence.

Disney "Impossible Plausible": Limitlessness

2010-07-04T11:20:00.000-07:00

When my son was a little, he asked me to tell the sun to stop "following" him, because he was hot. For toddlers, there are no laws of physics, everything is possible, and even the sun can be personalized. They are generally in awe with things, because they see them as if just created.

They are in a state of poetry, a state that frees everything from the banality of habit; the imprisonment of functionality; the mediocrity of taking-for-grantedness.
It is something of this awe and innocence that Walt Disney must have preserved for creating the limitless world of animation, overruling physical laws, personalizing creation and presenting every being and every little thing infused with a primordial, original life.

The Walt Disney Family Museum

2010-07-02T22:52:00.000-07:00

In telling Walt Disney's life, The WDF museum shows his life as the life of, the fight for, and the victory of creativity.

And creativity, the triumph of spirit over matter,soul over self,

and freedom over submission,

is the real happy ending in this world.

Disney Harmony

2010-06-25T09:02:00.000-07:00

Walt Disney was the paradoxical harmony of
Impulse and Pledge
Instinct and Determination
Fantasy and Planning
Flight and Grounding
Leadership and Candy
Fight and Faith

Simply Disney

2010-06-08T11:11:00.000-07:00

It is as simple and as complex:

Walt Disney brought the best,

almost the impossible out of people

because he gave and brought almost the impossible out of himself.

Disney Enchantment

2010-06-08T11:01:00.000-07:00

"It takes a lot of courage to see the world

in all its tainted glory and still love it"
Oscar Wilde.

Remembering Walt Disney, I say,

" It took him a lot of courage to see the world

in all its tainted glory and still enchant it"

Disney Mickey

2010-05-24T17:37:00.000-07:00

Mickey is now considered a corporate logo. He was criticized as lacking appeal for being "sanitized" and taking second place to Donald Duck. But everything Mickey was, having become History, became, also, timeless. All he represented passed from the awareness of everyday life into the atemporality of the unconscious mind. Mickey is no longer just "this" or "that", he is a symbol.

Disney Miracle

2010-05-22T10:06:00.000-07:00

Magic is the beauty of fantasy, Miracle is grace

Magic is freedom from the laws of reality, Miracle is blessed reality;
Magic is multicolor, Miracle is oneness;
Magic is what Walt Disney created;
Miracle is his coming into this world.

Disney Intensity

2010-05-12T11:46:00.000-07:00

Watch one of Walt Disney's Golden Age animated movies, or clips of Disney himself, when you can see his spontaneity; the synchrony of his movements and expressions with his soul;
how at ease he is in waving,
or in kissing the mouth of his dog,
or smelling a rose, or talking, by the pool, to baby Diane,
and you learn the truth of a most beautiful paradox:

Intensity is power, but the power of delicacy.

Disney Mother's Day

2010-05-09T01:07:00.000-07:00

Other than his unique communication with children, Walt Disney also the intuition to know their world, the courage to make it and the passion to share it. He also had the maternal self-detachment of generosity: His fictional offsprings were destined to delight the offsprings of all mothers in the world!

As an homage to this mother's day, women and their young children should watch and cherish a Disney cartoon together!

Happy Disney Mother Day to all!

Disney Religiosity

2010-04-21T10:14:00.000-07:00

Real religiosity is to see heart in matter, life in things,

and meaning in what is apparently inhuman and inanimate;

everything being manifestations of the divine anima.

Because he felt that, Walt Disney re invented

animation as the expression of this alive interconectedness.

all inclusive interconectedness.

Disney Gratefulness

2010-04-17T09:49:00.000-07:00

Life may be a constant lesson in humbleness.

That is its spiritual generosity.

Some people take it that way,

and that is their gratefulness.

Walt Disney was the most life grateful person:

He was constantly overcoming himself.

Disney Real Ecology

2010-04-14T10:39:00.000-07:00

Walt Disney was the primordial ecologist, not just because he loved and respected nature, but because he expressed, in his animation, the truth that took modern science much study to assert:

EVERYTHING is connected EVERYTHING is interdependent!

EVERYTHING shares one common Meaning!

In this small example of the interconnectedness of Disney animation, we can see Mickey's ears equally participating in the manifestation of Mickey's fear, as he anticipates what is to come.

Disney Awe

2010-04-12T15:22:00.000-07:00

One cannot love highly enough

a man who fought to share with all

the unparalleled awe he felt for life!

This man was Walt Disney.

Contemplative Disney

2010-04-12T15:11:00.000-07:00

Walt Disney's contemplative side is clearly shown in his love of miniatures, his power to see the immensity of the small. Before a tiny setting, or a small world, one, like a god, imagines stories, becomes its characters, at the same time of creating them. One is creator and creature at the same time.

Disney Imminence of Life

2010-04-10T14:53:00.000-07:00

The imminence of life is awe of its mystery and joy of its miracle.
It is reverence before the immaculate and its unforgivingness.
It is the ambiguity of freedom;
of being permission and yet will of God;
owner of a destiny but also part of a living whole.
It is the seed of creation before life It is the awareness Walt Disney had, in his drive to animate.

Disney Call

2010-04-04T09:52:00.000-07:00

External duty is law, convention and imposed learning.
Inner duty is mission fulfilling.
It is a call from God.
Walt Disney is the best example of

rebelliousness for the sake of inner duty.

He fulfilled it. Beautifully.

With all his rigor as a boss, intolerance and what not,

he fulfilled the call. Beautifully!

Wasn't he an angel?

Happy Easter to all!

Disney Eternity

2010-04-04T09:40:00.000-07:00

Disney Triad

2010-03-31T11:10:00.000-07:00

Innocence, intensity and devotion are the three manifestations of our relationship to God.

Walt Disney had immense innocence to dream, great intensity to make and unique devotion to promote.

Disney Extremes

2010-03-25T09:30:00.000-07:00

Walt Disney was considered to have the gift to reach the human heart. That is why Disney animation many times reaches extremes, without falling overboard. Extremes are limits: everything there is to give. But in the Disney extremes, there is always a touch of delicacy to counterbalance the exaggeration of mere melodrama. A Disney extreme reconcilies the subtle and the obvious, what is suggested and what is visible, the secret and the revelation.

Disney Animism

2010-03-20T13:24:00.000-07:00

To animate is not really to give movement, but to give life (Animus means to live).

Walt Disney gave life to the drawings of things, animals and plants because he gave them soul.

Like the Great Creator with original creation, he identified with his creatures in one common heart; to that extent, Disney declared that he naturally thought of anything as capable of having the same feelings as himself.

Disney Confession

2010-03-17T11:41:00.000-07:00

" He (the white man) is the victim of a civilization whose ideal is the unbotherable, poker-faced man and the attractive, unruffled woman. Even the gestures get to be calculated. The spontaneity of the animal-you find it in small children, but it's gradually trained out of them". Walt Disney.

Is there any doubt that in children and animals Walt Disney found the reflex of his own integrity and authenticity?

Disney Brazil

2010-03-06T14:59:00.000-08:00

I've been always intrigued by the difference between loving Disney creation in Brazil, from loving it in the US.
Looking at a little Mickey doll I carry with me when I travel, it seemed to me more clear cut, precise, inexorable and also freer. I wondered whether it had to do with the fact that the Brazilian space, being less planned, and determined, is less submited to spacial limitations, feeling, therefore, more like the kind of space depicted in a cartoon, in which nothing is impossible.
Mickey here in Brazil looks freer, and absolute.
Walt Disney must have hated limitations!

Disney Circle

2010-03-06T14:48:00.000-08:00

The past is the heart, what lives forever without having to be seen. The future is the mind, what has to be projected in order to be. Walt Disney, with a foot in the past and another in the future, was heart and thought: the complete circle.

Disney Ressurrection

2010-03-05T08:33:00.000-08:00

In the nineties, some social workers that I know, took a bunch of ghetto kids to the movie for the first time. It was a free session of Snow White!

Not unlike me (once a miserable rich girl) at the end, the kids said: We now have hope to get a better life! The movie was DIsney's Snow White! Among the kids, there was a thieve girl who hyper ventilated at so much beauty. She was shot on the following day. She died, but her head was on Disney Heaven!

Disney Birth

2010-02-28T13:39:00.000-08:00

Purity is birth; the immaculate coming into being. Creator and creature split, with immense innocence and sadness, yet with the hope of freedom. Like the parting of the hand of God from that of Adam, by Michael Angelo. Initial animation, the blowing of life into drawings, is giving birth.

Walt Disney animated because he was pure!

Disney Fight

2010-02-24T05:07:00.000-08:00

According to Neal Gabler, Walt Disney was fighting to be the "lord of animation".

But Disney's fight, before being a mere competition with others, concerned the endless effort to measure up to himself:

As a giver that he was, to give his very best!

Disney Universe

2010-02-21T05:14:00.000-08:00

When at the deck of my apartment by the sea, Uli, my little nephew, was told "This is Eleonora's house", to which he replied: No! It is the house of the Sea!"

The Sea, for this toddler, appearing so powerful and majestic, took over the house like a much greater personality than myself. The soul and heart of the sea, like in Walt Disney's universe, was recognized and asserted!

Disney Fire

2010-02-16T06:21:00.000-08:00

Like the fire, Walt Disney had the innocence and beauty of self-consumption, of sacrifice for the sake of Light!

Charismatic Walt Disney

2010-02-05T10:35:00.000-08:00

Like Walt Disney, leaders have charisma,
whereas bosses just have power.

Disney Authenticity

2010-02-03T10:27:00.000-08:00

            Walt Disney was unpredictable because he was himself 24hs a day.

     Most people are predictable because they are

what is expected of them to be.

Disney Reconciliation

2010-02-02T10:34:00.000-08:00

   Two days after returning from Brazil, where we had an amazing experience with the Brazilian Indians, I had to go to the Mac store, to fix a problem with my phone. As if it weren't hard enough the jet lag, the extreme change of whether, and almost as extreme change of culture, the iPhone was letting me down. I was obviously feeling in a limbo, and as I walked into that sanctuary of the computer world, going under that logo, the apple in which, no matter how bitten, is so totally precise, I saw myself, almost literally, like an Indian out of the jungle.
    As one of the staff member explained to me the new features of the iPhone and the connectedness it allows one and one's friends and whoever else one wants to be in, I couldn't help comparing such connectedness with the connectedness one I felt in the Indian Sacred Ceremony.
     Technology, no doubt, makes the world all connected through the exact processes of electronics.

     The Indian Ceremony makes one feel the connectedness of being part of a higher, transcendental love, in which one is everything and everything is one. I thought that these two instances of being netted to one's fellow men, to places and to the world are extreme opposites.
    With animation, in which everything shares the same mood and everything communicates, and likewise with Disneyland, Walt Disney reconciled the connectedness of technology, which is that of control, and the connectedness of love, which is that of awe; or letting go.
What else can one expect?

Transparent Walt Disney

2010-01-31T15:40:00.000-08:00

Walt Disney told his daughter Diane, that he was seen in different ways by different people at the Disney studio, being even described as the bogeyman that tore up what others had put hard work on. Disney concludes: "Someone has to say yes or no and stick to it and that is my job."

What humbleness Disney describes his role with, and, yet, with what a transparent, straight forward concision, he transmitts the myriad phases to overcome before not just taking but sticking to a decision, as well as the enormity of full responsibility!

Primeval Disney

2010-01-26T11:35:00.000-08:00

I've experienced with
the Brazilian Indians, in a holy ritual of theirs, that sacredness, connectedness and love are one and
the same. Maybe that is why the connectedness of everything in Disney animation, like the communication between organic and the inorganic; the world of objects and that of animals, plants and people, transmits this immense love and warmth that touched the universal soul of humanity. Disney connectedness is an expression of the love which all creation is part of.
Like a little toddler who, in his state of poetry, talks to things as if they had the same life as himself, Walt Disney felt this life in everything, joining, in his animation, childhood, primitiveness and essence.
Walt Disney's intuition was his awareness of a transcendental, sacred love.

Disney Delicious

2010-01-23T05:55:00.000-08:00

When Walt wanted a train of his own, he just wanted it large enough for him to sit on.
Is it possible to imagine the greatness of his innocence and imagination, in this merging of realism (the train looked like a real train) and playfulness, in this ignoring of traditional size relationships, wanting to "ride" a train without being inside it?
It is simply delicious!

Disney Leadership

2010-01-21T05:29:00.000-08:00

The difference between leadership and mere bossyness is like between that of wine and water. A mere boss imposes commands that are external to himself as well as to those under him, whereas a leader brings the best out of people because his authority springs from self-conviction and insight into others.
While a boss wants things "his way", a leader shows "the way".

Disney Resourcefulness

2010-01-19T13:11:00.000-08:00

Looking out of the window, I saw a bird's nest squeezed between the electrical wires of the street. As a lovely, tiny white bird entered it, I delighted in the resourcefulness of nature, or better, of life, in creating the most delicate, spiritually light habitat amidst black and ugly wires. Maybe that is why he said man is the most helpless animal. But he himself acted like those birds, building the mystery of fantasy with the exactness of electricity, as well as adapting to different situations continually, with the most alive resourcefulness, in the most creative way. Disney had the spontaneity of nature and the spirituality of art!

Disney Forever

2010-01-18T09:56:00.000-08:00

I am in Rio for the week. I was moved when the maid of my brother (in whose house I am staying), a woman in her thirties, recognized Walt Disney from a pic that I have of his in his late 20's or so, : "Thanks to this man I had the happiest moments in my life", she said, to which I answered that we have a lot in common. She then added that one can only imagine how hard he worked to bring happiness to others!

Disney Courage

2010-01-16T07:06:00.000-08:00

Recklessness is lack of fear. Courage is the overcoming of it.
Walt Disney, an example of courage, must have been intensely aware of fear
(he had nightmares into adulthood about the fear of being punished by his father) as well as of
the dignity and coherence of overcoming it.

Like when he, at fourteen,
held the arms of Elias, who was ready to beat him.

Disney Opportunity

2010-01-12T11:53:00.000-08:00

Walt Disney must have heard many times in his life that he was lucky, to the point that he claimed he didn't believe in luck ( Walt Disney quotes).
Luck is generally defined as the meeting of opportunity with hard work.
Walt Disney didn't believe in luck because he himself made his opportunities.
It was him, for instance, that led Roy to check out of the hospital where

he was recovering from a relapse of TB, and who knows the reason Roy never had another relapse was, again, due to his brother's enthusiasm and to the meaning he gave their work?

For, the number of good things that might have come out of the blue, for Disney, maybe a double or a triple of that number were setbacks.

Walt Disney believed a man could make his life.
He certainly made his.

Disney Higher Love

2010-01-10T12:52:00.000-08:00

To believe that life has meaning is to believe in a higher human element behind facts and creation. This higher merging of intelligence and love, is the essence and possibility of happy endings.
To believe in it before the crudity, pain, suffering and transience of life reveals a profound certainty of such love.

Walt Disney, someone who brought so many happy endings to fruition, not just on film, but in reality, must have coexisted with such love.

Essential Disney

2010-01-09T21:53:00.000-08:00

Meaning can only be meaning as related to the human understanding or emotion. To believe that life has meaning is to believe in that love is the source of creation. It is the essence and possibility of happy endings.
To vow for happy endings,
before the crudity of life, pain and finiteness, reveals a profound
certainty of such love.

In Walt Disney's case, a coexistence with it.

Unpredictable Disney

2010-01-08T08:41:00.000-08:00

The unpredictable is what makes most of us armed against, turning life into a repetition, wanting to see in it more a confirmation of our plans than the bliss of novelty.

Walt Disney was unpredictable because he didn't fear this eternal quality of surprise that life can have.
His integrity was the nakedness of his own soul, before the nakedness of life itself.

Disney Creator

2010-01-07T06:41:00.000-08:00

Disney's ignoring scruples of tradition and style, limits of real and fake, for the sake of his creativity, reformulates the difference between what to respect and what to infringe, that is, rendering profane and consecrating.
What could be a better account of the mystical than a power to recreate the limit between what to consecrate and what to use: the profane and the sacred?

Perfect Disney

2010-01-05T09:57:00.000-08:00

Roy P Disney said to N Gabler, at D23, that Walt only had two gears, obssession and indifference. Walt Disney was a perfectionist and perfectionism, in common with singlemindedness, requires the capacity to give oneself fully to what one is doing.
It concerns that posture of no self-sparing, coherence and synchrony with what one is doing.
It concerns the unforgiving dignity of only giving one's best.

With such intensity, could a perfeccionist have room for the gear of tepidness, or lukewarmness, or "let's take it out of the way" that most people do?

Disney Angels

2010-01-03T09:43:00.000-08:00

Walt Disney said that he'd been always used to live with competition, and that was how he knew to live. When one thinks that he was always bracing an ongoing and, many times, unscrupulous attempts at destruction, as he kept believing in the fantasy, laughter and dream, one realizes that, like his having a foot in the past and another in the future, Disney could look into evil's face, while being in synch with angels.

Walt Disney!

2010-01-02T11:29:00.000-08:00

Young Walt Disney, according to Gabler, having no real training for it, was
determined to become an animator, something for which a job did not
even seem to exist.
To this and to what followed in Disney's life, one has to remember the existential philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's belief in the miraculous power of faith and his brilliant identification of purity to integrity:

"Purity of Heart is to will one Thing" - Kierkegaard.

Happy 2010: A Disney "10"!

2010-01-01T12:23:00.000-08:00

The
world feels faster than ever, everyday with tons of information one
would like to learn, with no time. In this race, how can one look
inward, absorb what one sees, return it in the form of creativity? That
is where contemplative interaction appears as a Disney union of
extremes: thought with physical immersion, action with contemplation.
Let's wish 2010 along this line, will be the year of reconciliation!

Disney Everliving

2009-12-30T11:34:00.000-08:00

Once, talking about Walt Disney, a Disney fan told me that it takes the Walt Disney family and people like me to keep the spark alive, for only the baby boomers remember and miss him. He is right insofar as the baby boomers' favorite "uncle", that figure of righteousness and family stability, is something of the Fifties and Sixties. In the days of the cold war, Americans needed more than ever to be reassured of basic American values. But my Disney fan friend is not right, when it comes to the essence of Walt Disney. And with this, I don't mean the company logo, or the ongoing Disney creations, but of a man whose discoveries and inventions keep on influencing the world of today, in education, art and in the very relationship with technology. The latter is, in a typical Disney way, more playful all the time. As for education and art, Walt Disney, with the storytelling rides of Disneyland, invented contemplative interaction, something that regards not just art, but a profound, elemental form of education (I will be talking about it in the following posts).

Walt Disney is Everliving also as a man whose integrity, courage and rebelliousness to convention are, at this day and age, when people are looking more than ever for a sense of meaning, spiritual reassurance and the myriad ways of searching their true self, an existential and mystical inspiration.

Walt Disney's Delicacy and Strenght

2009-12-28T08:31:00.000-08:00

Disney's creation transmits not just sweetness, but its side of immensity.
The same happens with miniatures and the small to scale.

Walt could see the immensity of the small, that which allows us to stare at with playfulness and, yet, the omnipotent contemplation of a god; with the imagination that creates endless worlds to happen in it.
Walt Disney's delicacy of spirit was his strenght!
Couldn't we say that sweetness is the strenght of affection, of that which is intimate, invisible and, of course, delicate?

Disney Revelation

2009-12-27T14:01:00.000-08:00

Pierre Lambert ( "Il Etait Une Fois Walt Disney") says that in Walt Disney's instructions for Bambi, he said that fantasy would come out of the young deer, just like with the young child who peppers his parents with questions. Walt Disney knew that fantasy was like seeing things for the first time, new and unstained by habit, prejudice or mere rationality, because he himself never lost the awe children discover the world with! To see things with the purity of being so disarmed reveals, in them, the very miracle of their coming into being!

Xmas with Walt Disney

2009-12-25T08:03:00.000-08:00

Walt Disney had influence over many people indiscriminately. Religious leaders affect determinate geographic areas, the same for political heads, dividing the world. But Disney went everywhere, homogenizing all kinds of people, with no indoctrination and no fighting.
Calling him The Greatest Showman, The Movie maker etc doesn't measure up. Being such a unique case, Walt Disney can pull off his own name as a title: The Great Disney.

To see him by the Xmas tree makes one feel like the whole world turned into a Xmas present!

Conclusion of A Disney Story

2009-12-24T09:45:00.000-08:00

As I thought that, the declaration of the lady in the store, “I love him in this picture” came back to me, as a similar way of feeling.
     Walt Disney was “hers”, but was also beyond her, just like ….. And it occurred to me, just like Main Street USA and all of Disney’s settings. They all have that peculiar quality of making one feel like being an integral part of and, yet, protective of them.
     Reading the biography I bought led me to all the others that have been written of Disney, as well as to many related books of Disney creation and Disney team, in something that has turned into a endless trip of fascination and discovery. In one of those texts, I learned that, for Lady and the Tramp, Walt Disney gave instructions that the view of the little town that the two enamored dogs have from above should be attractive as a place to be in as well as to be looked at, from that distance. Just like I felt in relation to Main Street USA, wanting to be its character and spectator at the same time.
     In fact, Disney creation in general arouses an exchange of warmth with the public; a physical and emotional drive from one, like the wish to touch and a heart concern, simultaneously. It certainly reflects not just Walt Disney’s personality, in the bounding he had with the physical world of nature, but in his positive view of people and in the interaction he had with his audience. Just like what was transmitted with:
     “ I love him in this picture!”

Second Segment of Disney Xmas Story

2009-12-23T09:42:00.000-08:00

“ Should I buy the book or not?” I was still asking myself, when two ladies, seeming to be in their fifties, approached the stand.
    They looked very composed, like two English ladies about to have their five o’clock tea, and were obviously good friends, sharing the Disney passion. While I was there pathetically indecisive, one of them spotted a reproduction of a photograph that shows young Disney by an entrance, probably of his office, on the side of a wall on which a shadow of Mickey Mouse is projected. A copy of this same picture was imprinted on the cover of the biography I was carrying.
      The lady picked it up from the stand and, showing it to her friend, said:
     “I love him in this picture!”
    For some reason I didn’t know, I felt, in that moment, as close to her as I would to a best friend.
     She talked with knowledge of cause and the intimate but yet respectful warmth of a mother, who is protective and proud of her son at the same time. It made me guess that she and her friend knew all the photos of Disney available to the public. They probably knew, also, all the facts of his life. What was I waiting for to buy the book?
   Approaching the counter, I purchased it and made my way out of the park. Exhausted, but already nostalgic of the reality I was leaving behind, I, like always, affectionately looked at the buildings of Main Street USA, as if, in my mental good-bye, I could retain something of them inside me. I was wondering about what makes everything in that street feel, more than welcoming, so familiar and yet so revealing, as if worthy of respect and intimacy at the same time, making you want to play with it, like one plays with one’s favorite, oldest toy, but also take care of it, like one takes of a little animal, and even beyond: pay homage to it!

Disney Xmas Story: "I love him in this Picture"

2009-12-22T13:50:00.000-08:00

I will post in three or four segments, a true story I've written of a precious Disney memory that changed my life and helped me finding my real roots and, with them, my identity. Here it goes:

      I was very young then, and, after a full day playing in the rides at WDW, I found myself at a store that sold books, photographs and other Disney merchandise. I must confess that I didn’t know a lot about Walt Disney other than I loved him for everything he brought to fruition, and for a few uplifting declarations of his that I’d seen printed here and there.
   Biographies are not my favorite gender in literature, but, realizing it was time I learned something about the man who provided so much joy, fantasy, and, in my particular case and I guess many others, so much healing, I tentatively picked “Walt Disney- An American Original” by Bob Thomas. Ashamed to confess it now, I questioned myself, while leafing through, whether that would be one more book gathering dust on my bedside table, with the many others that endlessly wait to be read, if I came to pay for it. Questions such “ Why get it? I don’t like biographies…. Don’t biographers always want to sound as if they know their subject better than the subject himself?” or “When have I managed to finish reading a biography?” or still “What about all the titles I keep trying to make time to read and never do?”
   Holding the book, I perused the store, giving myself more time to make up my mind. On a stand, I discovered several photographs of Walt Disney for sale, and since I didn’t even know very well what Walt looked like when he was young, started to examine them. More than Walt’s stylish, what they call “flashy” way of dressing, I was impressed with how much at ease he was with himself, with his intensely expressive, elegant but, yet, absolutely informal way. He was certainly able to pull off whatever he put on for being so much himself, for naturally making his outfit an extension of his body and movements. (cont. on next posting)

Disney Awe

2009-12-20T13:04:00.000-08:00

       Walt Disney has granted us a reality in which life is not only survival, but givingness, not just something to be paid for, but to be to be awed by.

      To be in awe is to experience the surrender to a higher degree of reality.

Disney Great and Disney Small

2009-12-16T09:42:00.000-08:00

Bruno Girveau wisely mentions (" Il Etait Une Fois Walt Disney"), that the castle (le chateau) dominated the imaginary of Walt Disney's films, since the beginning, to the point of eventually becoming "the nevralgic center of Disney parks, sharing, with Mickey, the honor of figuring the emblem of the Walt Disney co.

This tells us something more of Walt Disney as a man of extremes, someone that could see the immensity of the small (Mickey, miniatures, toys) and that of the great alike. A mouse and a castle: the prosaic and the noble; the domestic, kitchen-like coexisting with the royal heights, both fraternalized by fantasy. But when we think that Mickey in his smallness has heroic greatness and that the castles of Disney parks are toy-like, we see, in Disney fantasy, the generosity saints have of loving the great and small alike, to the point of giving to both the same attributes.
Can one conclude that the reality of fantasy, that which only visionaries and poets have access to, was, with Disney, the love of absolute reconciliation, that which, paradise like, allows all opposites to complement, rather than oppose, one another, all conflicts to be resolved, and all "impossibilities" become miracles?

Disney's Rebirth

2009-12-15T10:55:00.000-08:00

Today, 43 years ago, Walt Disney entered the world of Pure Spirit, to become the agelessness and timelessness of eternal inspiration for all.
In the magic way he transmitted the values of integrity, fight and faith,
the victory of good over evil, as well as those of
fantasy and fan, Disney was

the greatest educator,
symbolically father and mother to all.
To benefit from the message of Walt's integrity is to bridge this world of material existence and that of Spirit: to dethrone death.
For this, one can't be but grateful.

The "Prince of Laughter" and the Laughter of a Prince

2009-12-11T12:09:00.000-08:00

What follows was written on one of the 900 and some odd tributes Walt Disney received worldwide, displayed in the WDF Museum, and I transcribe it here for the fair, original and poetic title give to Disney:
"To Walt Disney, Prince of Laughter, in appreciation of the 25 years of making the world glow with heartwarming joy and introducing into our lives Mickey Mouse, DD and a host of other myrth provoking characters, we are ever grateful for your creative genius!"

My illustration of Disney (from the pic that is near the template of this blog) tries to transmit the "laughter" of a Prince, that is, that kind of joy only a chosen person can feel.

Endearing Disney

2009-12-09T12:29:00.000-08:00

The antropomorphism of animals dates to ancien Egypt. Then, they were deified. In the 19th Century, we see masters such as Grandville, Beatrix Potter, Kley, notably Daumier and Dore (who illustrated the Fables of La Fontaine) humanizing animals in their respective styles, and are said to have influenced Walt Disney, who brought a lot from Europe. Humanized animals however, only become endearing with Disney cuteness. For me, this trait resulted from the identification of toy, babyhood and animal nature.
I guess it is because in Walt Disney, playfulness, childhood and nature were at one.

Disney Charisma

2009-12-07T15:47:00.000-08:00

In "Talk with the Legends", at the WDF Museum, Richard Sherman said that when Walt assigned them a task, it became the most important thing in the world; all they wanted was to please Walt. But Walt wanted to hear their opinions because he wanted them to also please themselves with what they did. Richard remarked that people in general overlook this generosity. One then concludes that the inspiration Walt gave them was courage: the right to be themselves. This quality Walt Disney had of making one feel reassured, strong and at the same time supported; this power of transmitting courage and conviction I guess, that is what charisma is.

Walt Disney's Arrival!

2009-12-05T11:28:00.000-08:00

Thanks for this day Walt was born! Visiting the WDF Museum again, I came to the conclusion that Walt's genius had much to do with Walt's gratitude to life: his capacity to make the most of everything that came his way, eventually re creating it. Note, for instance, the clock of Strasbourgh he discovered in France when he was still an adolescent, and its reappearance on "Its a Small World"!
Creativity makes the best of what life puts along one's path, be it beauty or suffering. Aside from the gratefulness to life of creativity in general, Walt's gratefulness was a profound and yet spontaneous coexistence with the Good!

He saw the good in everything because he had it inside and alongside his life of struggle. He knew what forgiveness was and he knew how to forgive. He knew there was a world of Xmas beauty inside a Xmas tree and that this world can be destroyed inadvertently by 2 chipmonks but, yet, ressurrected in the forgiveness Mickey grants the two little animals. Ressurrected in that kind of love that is above everything!

Disney Messenger of the Gods

2009-12-04T11:49:00.000-08:00

Walt Disney was said to be "mercurial".
How can someone have integrity, be in synch with life, if life, for the creative person, is always a source of surprise, that is, is "mercurial" itself?

Mercury is the Roman name for the greek god Hermes, the messenger of the gods. He had to be everywhere, as fast as he could, to carry the Olympian designs. That is the way Disney acted too, bringing to fruition heavenly designs.

Disney Charm

2009-11-28T13:48:00.000-08:00

Another reason Oscar Wilde valued "style" so much, I think, is because "style", like charm, is what gives one coherence and yet lightness, seriousness but also humor. It puts, Walt Disney-like,

pungency
and fun together. Like the informality of positions and movements we see in many pics of Disney pre "uncle Walt", like his at easiness in being himself, in turning, whatever he was wearing, into an extension of his own being; like in the rich, seemingly endless spontaneity of his expressions, like in his power of being constant surprise and constantly surprised, charm, in the manner of a work of art, has the effect of a redeeming intensity.

Mickey Disney

2009-11-27T18:01:00.000-08:00

When one's older kid goes back to college, one's dog wants to be left alone, one's husband is busy etc, it is Mickey one can clutch. Like a security blanket; a symbol of support, or even of unconditional love, Mickey is the one that either is, or should be, always there. Mickey is, beyond Disney's reaching of the human heart, his offering it his healing hand.

Disney Thanksgiving

2009-11-26T09:06:00.000-08:00

Walt DIsney was a pioneer, he invented a world practically from scratch. He had, in common with the pioneers, the assertion of freedom. Freedom is conviction, for only when one is sure of oneself, one is in touch with an inner truth, with what is not subject to to the relativity of reality and prevents one's path from becoming, like in a pinball game, a mere result of external pressures. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

From Mars to Marceline@

Disney Perfectionism

Disney Purity

Disney 2012 !

Disney and Christmas

Disney Universal Heart

Disney Essence

Thank You Walt Disney!

Complete Disney

Happy Birthday Walt Disney!

Disney Heroism

Mystical Disney

Disney Meaning

Disney Charisma

Disney Decency

Disney Universality

Disney Fulfilment

Disney Wisdom

To believe in Happy Endings is not necessarily think that all of one's endeavors will end the way one wants to,

but to simply know and feel that love is the force most responded to, with no self-interest, by animals, plants and humans!

Disney Depth

Disney Competition

Disney Perfection

Disney Purity

Disney Interpretations

Disney Warrior

Disney Example

A Disney New Year

Happy Bday Walt Disney!

Disney Apple

Disney Analysis

The Seriousness of Playing

Disney gave shape to the right of giving matter a meaning beyond its appearance: to turn the world into one big story.

Disney Devotion

Disney Reverence

Like Walt Disney, who had ecology concerns much ahead of his time, the natives preserve nature because they revere it, and not just because of self-interest, like the "civilized" men, who finally realized that, by exhausting it, they will be victims themselves.

Disney Light

Disney Light

Happy 55th Disneyland!

Great creations spring from the intimate, the everyday, what can "simply" be loved. Maybe because great creators are humble. The idea of Disneyland took shape from Walt Disney's taking his daughters to a common amusement park. Great creators don't ignore their truest voice; their own heart.

Disney Quantum Physics : Talent and Freedom

Disney "Impossible Plausible": Limitlessness

The Walt Disney Family Museum

In telling Walt Disney's life, The WDF museum shows his life as the life of, the fight for, and the victory of creativity.

And creativity, the triumph of spirit over matter,soul over self,

and freedom over submission,

is the real happy ending in this world.

Disney Harmony

Simply Disney

It is as simple and as complex:

Walt Disney brought the best,

almost the impossible out of people

because he gave and brought almost the impossible out of himself.

Disney Enchantment

"It takes a lot of courage to see the world

in all its tainted glory and still love it"Oscar Wilde.

Remembering Walt Disney, I say,

" It took him a lot of courage to see the world

in all its tainted glory and still enchant it"

Disney Mickey

Disney Miracle

Disney Intensity

Disney Mother's Day

Disney Religiosity

Real religiosity is to see heart in matter, life in things,

and meaning in what is apparently inhuman and inanimate;

everything being manifestations of the divine anima.

Because he felt that, Walt Disney re invented

animation as the expression of this alive interconectedness.

all inclusive interconectedness.

Disney Gratefulness

Disney Real Ecology

Walt Disney was the primordial ecologist, not just because he loved and respected nature, but because he expressed, in his animation, the truth that took modern science much study to assert:

EVERYTHING is connected EVERYTHING is interdependent!

EVERYTHING shares one common Meaning!

In this small example of the interconnectedness of Disney animation, we can see Mickey's ears equally participating in the manifestation of Mickey's fear, as he anticipates what is to come.

Disney Awe

Contemplative Disney

Disney Imminence of Life

Disney Call

in all its tainted glory and still love it"
Oscar Wilde.

External duty is law, convention and imposed learning.
Inner duty is mission fulfilling.
It is a call from God.
Walt Disney is the best example of