Mi Tesoro
Mi Tesoro
A guy i had dated once told me I was this right after he said i was beautiful in Spanish (he grew up speaking Spanish in his parents’ home)
“My Treasure”
Treasure, people, TREASURE!
a rare find of great value. an item searched for relentlessly or stumbled upon by surprise. something that you don’t even really know what it truly looks like, even right up until the point that you find it. a thing wrapped in a mythical and tenuous shrouding. something you’re not even sure really exists, but you hope to God it does. a thing worth the searching just for the chance of finding.
Treasure
Treasure is not just a thing of value, it’s a thing of beauty. Adventurers/ Treasure-Seekers like Indiana Jones, Jack Sparrow and Rick O’Connell aren’t seeking out green paper bills, they’re looking for a goblet, gold doubloons and a legendary ship or a gold-plated book with the secrets of life (that unfortunately raises a mutant mummy from the “dead” which doesn’t really help my analogy, well maybe i can see if i can work it in)
Treasure often involves a lifetime. A lifetime discovery, a lifetime dream, a lifetime pursuit, a lifetime search, a lifetime seeking, a lifetime speculating, a lifetime of reveling.
It seems to me that treasure-seeking often comes to us in those starry eyed moments of our life. Times in our childhood, times when we are surrounded by people of great inspiration, times when we are invested in.
The hope for treasure germinates out of those life experiences that nurture our sense of wonder in this sojourn of life.
You remember it, you know it. When the firefighter came to you class kindergarten to give a talk, when your 4th grade student teacher believed you had a future in storytelling, when you English teacher told you that she saw your potential, when your college biology prof made you want to change your major because she loved science so much.
When Indy’s father traveled the world in search of artifacts and inspired his son to do the same, when Elizabeth Swann squirrels away Will Turner’s pirate necklace and when Jonathon is inspired to act courageously in response to the daring of his sister Evie and O’Connell’s actions.
This post is the result of several philosophical pondering coming into collision.
loneliness, inadequacy and questions about the future
Struggling with feelings of inadequacy i began to look back in my life in an attempt to devise from my life-long involvement with this world if there was any evidence my existence having value.
Those Spanish words sent in a text message months ago came to mind.
Mi Tesoro, My Treasure
Hello world!
Well prompting, encouraging and general pondering about the world has led me to start this blog. I had one, years ago that I steadfastly updated, but that has fallen short as of late. So here we are again giving it another whirl.
