Journaling: Sunday Evening: With W in Arizona tonight, it was just girls and I for our Sunday night movie "Indian in the Cupboard". Girls were very attentive. A little surprising, D3 still has some problems sitting through an entire movie. The movie was OK, but it had a couple quotes at the end that caught my attention.
Little Bear (the Indian) is explaining the path to manhood as an Iroqois Indian. "The boy is taken to the wilderness and left there alone for an entire year. After the seasons change, he returns back to the tribe as a man." How many of us fell we are doing the same thing. We have been left in the wilderness alone (some for years) by are spouses. However, when we walk out, we will have grown into something more than what we were before.
Before returning back to his life, Little Bear asks the boy "What about the Iroquois? Are we always a great people?". The boy thinks about it for a while and responds "Yes. The Iroquois remain a great people. However, the times are not always good." The fact that I am not in good times doesn't mean that I can't be a great person. I sometimes forget that.
