Mary Poppins - My Hero!

[Willow]

Just thought I'd share a blog with ya'll. It "kinda" relates to the spiritual abuse issue... at least to the hero complex that predisposed me...

Mary Poppins
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I've had a few people ask me why I have Mary Poppins as the sole hero on my bio. Outside of the obvious... "She's practically perfect in every way!".... She was my first superhero (apart from my parents).

My parents took me to see my first movie when I was 3. Shortly after seeing the movie I saw a bunch of older neighbor boys jumping off a porch with shouts of "SUPERMAN!". I... privy to the secret truth on flying... set out to astound them with my newfound capability. I walked to the edge of the porch and with great confidence told them to "watch this... I really CAN fly". The group backed off in awe as I methodically propped my feet apart, heel-to-heel in the same way I'd seen Mary Poppins do... in the background I heard a boy's voice say... "Amy, don't do it!". With great confidence I held up my invisible umbrella and let my feet rise from the porch ledge...

The shock as I hit the ground was enough to make me scream loudly. As my mother scraped me off the ground I sobbed, "But Mary Poppins can do it!". Upon later reflection, I studied the unexpected failure. Suddenly it dawned on me what went wrong... The umbrella!... I was missing the umbrella!

My Dad spent much time in the next few days, weeks and months trying to to convince me that flight was not in my range of human abilities. He was terrified I would try it again from our 2 story apartment balcony. He didn't need to worry though... I had discovered the key to my mistake and had no idea how to obtain the magic umbrella from Ms. Poppins.

Somehow I managed to carry this childhood wonder and confidence into my adult life. It's only in the last few years that I've come to realize that I am not indestructible, indispensable, supernatural nor am I able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Heck... I can't even get on a horse without a step stool anymore. Something about hitting age 40 brought the realization of my commonality with the rest of mankind. OR did it?

If I just could find that danged umbrella....

Mary Poppins will forever be my first movie, my first hero, my first lesson in my own human limitations... and my first inspiration to reach for the magical.

[Janice]

Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down! :D :D :D

[clementine]

Willow,
I thought she was the most beautiful woman in the world!!!! It has nothing to do with SA for me. I just loved her and loved the movie. All the characters are wonderful. DYK that Dick Van Dyke played a few characters other than Bert in the movie? The soundtrack is well ingrained too. 'Oh it's a jolly 'oliday wiv Mary...' :p

Clementine

[Carmen]

I loved the movie too! I really wished I was one of those kids. These days I think more of how Mary Poppins united the family, getting the father to stop being so occupied with self and work, to think of his family as the most important thing. The mother spent more time with her children too. "Let's go fly a kite..." Bert was a great character too, a free spirit who could laugh and dance on the ceiling. It would be great to have such friends, I think. (Van Dyke also played the old banker who didn't want to stop laughing and flying once he got started)

It is said that dreams of successful flight mean that one is sure of oneself, feels powerful. Wishing that one could fly might mean a wish for more control of one's life.

I remember dreams where I could fly, but that was a long time ago.

I just finished reading "Life, the Universe, and Everything" by Douglas Adams with my son, it is an old favorite of mine. Arthur Dent managed to fly, he was distracted at just the right instant as he was falling and managed to miss the ground...

[Willow]

I guess it doesn't have anything to do with spiritual abuse for me either... except the human phenomena of feeling indestructible until you get a little age on ya.
I did notice that ole Dick showed up more than a few times in that movie!

Willow,
I thought she was the most beautiful woman in the world!!!! It has nothing to do with SA for me. I just loved her and loved the movie. All the characters are wonderful. DYK that Dick Van Dyke played a few characters other than Bert in the movie? The soundtrack is well ingrained too. 'Oh it's a jolly 'oliday wiv Mary...' :p

Clementine

[Willow]

I always wanted to draw a picture on a sidewalk block and jump into it like they did. How imaginative! That's the most wonderful scene in the movie to me..... that and laughing til you float!


I loved the movie too! I really wished I was one of those kids. These days I think more of how Mary Poppins united the family, getting the father to stop being so occupied with self and work, to think of his family as the most important thing. The mother spent more time with her children too. "Let's go fly a kite..." Bert was a great character too, a free spirit who could laugh and dance on the ceiling. It would be great to have such friends, I think. (Van Dyke also played the old banker who didn't want to stop laughing and flying once he got started)

It is said that dreams of successful flight mean that one is sure of oneself, feels powerful. Wishing that one could fly might mean a wish for more control of one's life.

I remember dreams where I could fly, but that was a long time ago.

I just finished reading "Life, the Universe, and Everything" by Douglas Adams with my son, it is an old favorite of mine. Arthur Dent managed to fly, he was distracted at just the right instant as he was falling and managed to miss the ground...

[renee nelson]

I loved the movie too! I really wished I was one of those kids...

Yes I do to!!!!!!. I still just long to be part of that wonderful, wonderful world.
I guess these longings which are never quite satisfied here confirm the fact that we are not in our real home now. Heaven will surely be even better than anything we could ever hope for or imagine:) .

[Jerry]

The Hills are alive with the sound of music !!!!! ,,,,,,,,,,,,Oh wait!!!!! wrong movie :o ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,:D
Love Jerry :D

[clementine]

I liked that one too! The songs are as ingrained as the Mary Poppins songs... Can you believe The Sound of Music is one of my husband's favourite movies? :D Hilarious!
I find the parrallels between the two movies fascinating...
Clementine

[Willow]

The Hills are alive with the sound of music !!!!! ,,,,,,,,,,,,Oh wait!!!!! wrong movie :o ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,:D
Love Jerry :D

oh gosh! I'm a huge sound of music fan too! I thought it was so clever how they escaped the bad guys off the stage. I was also intrigued by the puppets as a child.

[dougjb]

Hi everyone,
I remember watching the Mary Poppins movie for the first time in the 1960's and I was left with wonder and spell bound by it magnificence. About 10 years ago, I watched it again, as you would imagine, as an adult. What I picked up the second time was that the world system dominated and controlled this family and everything was expendable to its demands. The children were being left as cannon fodder, or an after thought, to the demands of these outside forces. Mary Poppins was more than a nanny but one who caused the parents to re-examine their priorities [especially the father] of the importance of the family and thne make real change.

Some food for thought
Dougjb

[Willow]

Cool Doug... love the adult point of view on it!

Hi everyone,
I remember watching the Mary Poppins movie for the first time in the 1960's and I was left with wonder and spell bound by it magnificence. About 10 years ago, I watched it again, as you would imagine, as an adult. What I picked up the second time was that the world system dominated and controlled this family and everything was expendable to its demands. The children were being left as cannon fodder, or an after thought, to the demands of these outside forces. Mary Poppins was more than a nanny but one who caused the parents to re-examine their priorities [especially the father] of the importance of the family and thne make real change.

Some food for thought
Dougjb

[leelees]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: OH MY LIFE.....how could i have missed this thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
I LOOOOVVVVEEEEE MARY POPPINS...i know all the words!!

it has to totally be the best film ever!!!!

didnt like the kids tho!!!


i *am* Mary Poppins...i wear mary poppin shoes at work..but alas not purple! :D
dick van dyke mmmmmmmmm

*bounces excitedly on stool!*

[Anna Marta]

supercallafragelisticexpedalidosious even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious .... that was my favorite word! It was the longest word I learned even longer than Jimminy Cricket's "encyclopedia!" which I loved to spell and sing too

Anna Marta - forever young :)

[ex-shep]

supercallafragelisticexpedalidosious even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious .... that was my favorite word! It was the longest word I learned even longer than Jimminy Cricket's "encyclopedia!" which I loved to spell and sing too

Anna Marta - forever young :)

It beats antidistestablishmentarianism

[Willow]

LOL... or the supercallousedfragilemysticplaguedwithhalitosis.