Next to a very old oak tree this sunny afternoon I was daydreaming about something my young niece has been dealing with. She has recently started hearing someone call her name and no one is around. She has heard it in school, home and in the woods. She is a huge daydreamer, but no liar. She is worried, she's only 9.
When my daughter and I first arrived to do some yard work, Vi was in the driveway with a huge butcher knife, using like a machete to cut sticker bushes down. The dullest, rusty blade you can image. It has probably been in the elements for a couple years. But she is a warrior and light on her feet. I believe I have written about her before. She looks at me and yells "aaaahhhh I got a knife." My response was "make sure you are just killing blackberry vines." She soon lost interest in the blade and started running around with the cousins. She isn't a bad, scary kid. She is just a daydreamer like I am. I am trying to focus her love of swords and something with rules.
I told her today to my new secret to plan to help with my anxiety. I told her I want to learn more about the way of the Samurai. She didn't understand, but I am just planting the seed.
Her and her sister love anime. So I told them to watch "Akira" if it was ok with their parents. But I told them to think of themselves as Kaneda the hero and as Akira at the end. I reminded them in your imagination you can be both. I told them to image Akira as a spirit, or entity or whatever they thought he was. I look forward to their thoughts.
And yes they gave me some homework too, they just didn't know it. For me to begin researching more about Ronin.