Brigadoon - Piegaro

This morning I arose early and discovered the clouds were very low, and it was very misty here in Piegaro.  I remember a day like that last spring, a day I wrote of in an article called "almost Brigadoon."  Brigadoon is a story, best remembered as a movie with Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse about a successful American city boy who goes to Scotland on a final vacation before marriage and setting his high society life.  There in the hillside getting lost in the midst, he and his companion come across a mysterious village, Brigadoon.  It is in this village where he will find life and love with the people, especially with Cyd.  The dance numbers are full of passion and vitality.

The movie ends with Gene's character returning to find this mystical village, knowing that it disappears and all sleep there except for one day every hundred years.  But Gene is yearning for something he found there, and for something he couldn't find in New York City.  But it wasn't Cyd necessarily.  In fact, as he returns and the town reappears he is reminded that when you truly love, all things are possible.  Is is the love that is within, not something that someone threw over you like a thief stealing you in the night.  It was not in the passion of his initial trip, but in living out his love by returning that gave Brigadoon its magic.

So often we are encouraged to "look for love" - "find love" - "fall in love....as if love is something other, something out there.  However, it seems to me that the depression of our world, the sadness in our society is that we keep waiting for something external to happen to us.  But spirit resides within all of us; with the fullness of life and breath.  A great quote from a friend today, ‎'when life hands you high fructose corn syrup, sodium acid pyrophosphate, yellow 5, magnesium oxide, and >2% natural flavors, make lemonade,' reminds me that life is about what is authentic, we can make lemonade out of lemons, but when we rely on others to hand us what is not real, we will be disappointed.  Spirit is real, it is what moves us to the most real thing in life, Love.  If the great commission is to love God, others and self with our whole heart, miracles of love can happen.  Brigadoon is possible.

In the film it is impossible not to feel Gene Kelly's passion as he dances, sings and kisses his love for Cyd.  The only thing that holds us back from the fullness of living, the fullness of loving is ourselves.  We can live our lives to the fullest when we choose to love others to the fullest.  As I watch the clouds roll over the hillside across from my desk, I feel the magic of this place on my heart....and I know it is my love for this place that allows me to see the magic.  We all have love, the gift from God, each day so when life does give us lemons, we can drink the nector of lemonade.  And sometimes, if we are truly blessed, truly, truly blessed, God shows us our own Brigadoon.