MILK for the fridge....

I just saw the new movie MILK... excellent. There was a scene that is stuck in my mind that lead to deep and important thoughts... I thought I'd share...

Harvey Milk (Sean Penn), on his first run for office, gets a hostile letter in the mail. It is a death threat written on lined notebook paper with stick figures detailing the wounds the author intends to inflict.... quite amateur looking, but a death threat none the less. When it arrives, his partner sees it and has a normal, fearful reaction wants to throw it away or show it to the authorities. But Harvey is unimpressed. His reaction is what stays with me...
He puts it on the fridge, like child's art. He says, "Don't lock it away in a drawer where it gets bigger and scarier, put it out where we can see it everyday, it can't scare us then."

I'm paraphrasing of course, but you get the gist.

I have been mulling over that for a few days. What is it in my life that is stuffed in a drawer that is getting bigger and scarier by the day? (The list, oh, the list!!! it could go on for days...) What is in my "scary drawer" that if I just too it out and looked at it would shrink back down to real size, not real x 16?

So I am setting out on a journey... to clean out the 'junk drawer' of my mind. With any luck this will have the effect of sunlight on a vampire... here's hoping. So for all of the scary things that I find, I intend to give each the appropriate accompanying juvenile drawing, each fit for the fridge. I want them all out, visible, silly and small ... not big and scary.

I'll keep you posted.