Pocahontas. What a classic. Written about a time years and years ago, in a world we never knew, and adapted with beautiful characters and songs to fit a children’s imagination and reasoning.
But is that all? I suggest we all give it another good listen today, in 2016. Oddly enough, it seems to be more relevant than ever…
“You think I’m an ignorant savage, and you’ve been so many places I guess it must be so.”
“But still I cannot see, if the savage one is me.”
“How can there be so much that you don’t know? You don’t know..."
“But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name...”
“You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you.”
Learn about the "Queen of Katwe" here.
"Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon, or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?"
Learn to find the good in the bad...
Learn to find the good in the bad..."Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?"
"Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest."
What's your excuse?
"Come taste the sun sweet berries of the earth."
"Come roll in all the riches all around you, and for once, never wonder what they're worth."
"The rainstorm and the river are my brothers. The heron and the otter are my friends."
Treat them like it.
"And we are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends."
"How high does the Sycamore grow? If you cut it down, then you'll never know..."
"And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon."
How can we be so immune to the suffering of others?
"For whether we are white or copper-skinned, we need to sing with all the voices of the mountain,"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6xSyRJqIe8
"Need to paint with all the colors of the wind."
"All you'll own is earth until..."
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Because it's the one thing we can control.
