I'm late. I'm late ---for a very important date. Well, I've been around but occupied -and very busy too. Preoccupied as well. I get like that. No excuses. It's just the way I am. But already I digress. And so I am late for another post.You might have guessed that I'm about to tell you something about Alice and Wonderland. And indeed that is true. But there is more. And it is the "more" that interests me the most , intrigues me & baffles me . It is a subject I've written about before , but then I keep getting more little tidbits thrown my way that sparks that curiosity yet again. Let me start from the beginning.
Alice and Wonderland. The Mister & I made it out yesterday to see the new movie---a classic story with a new twist. And Johnny Depp, who I really appreciate as an actor, starred as The Mad Hatter. Who better to play The Mad Hatter? No one , in my book. But I digress again. I'm not going to review the movie except to say that I loved the sets and costumes and make-up---the story was not as compelling as I thought it was going to be. But glad enough I was to catch the movie yesterday.
I'm sure that most of you know that there are some very intriguing characters in the story. The White Rabbit for one. He leads Alice down the rabbit hole, which gets her into the mess she is in. And for Tim Burton's version of the story , it is not the first time she's been lead down a rabbit hole. ( Wouldn't ya think she'd have learned the first time? ) Anyway, he's got an important role in the story , though no more so than some of the others ( The Mad Hatter, The Red Queen, the Cheshire cat, for example ). But it is he that connects me to the rest of my story.
You see, when the Mister & I came out of the theater after the movie, we found that the rain that had been promised to come in and inundate us this week-end had actually begun as snow. Yes, again, and almost mid March. And a fierce wind accompanied the precipatation. It was a fine night for a murder OR a little magic. We were perhaps just over half way home , alone on the road at the time, when we noticed movement ahead, crossing in front of us. A critter. Not uncommon in our neck of the woods as the skunks have been out more for than a month now and raccoons have too been sighted . And we were far enough away not to be a threat to it if , as the Mister did, we slow down.
Now , I said that it was not uncommon to sight "critters" in our neck of the woods, but the one that crossed in front of us IS rather uncommon - for us. If I had been alone , I would've thought that I was hallucinating or that my imagination had taken a stroll. But I was not alone. And the Mister and I both spied it and simultaneously voiced , with bewilderment, that it was a rabbit just crossing into the breakdown lane -----and not just any rabbit. It was indeed a white rabbit.
And I have to tell you again. We do not see rabbits around here. Though there is woods behind us and farm land not far in almost every direction, we have never seen a rabbit in the years that we have lived here. Last night we slowed down for a rabbit , a white rabbit, just after seeing Alice in Wonderland.
I know, because I'd be likely to say it too, you are probably thinking, " Just a coincidence." And maybe you're right. But maybe there is Magic. And maybe some nights are just more Magical than most nights. That's all I've got to say about the matter now. I'm late. I'm late.
Wishing you delightful magic to intrigue, Cyth
