Ever After...

 

          I just finished watching Ever After and I think fairy tales have always had it right when it mocks a vain woman. No man can long endure a woman who basks in his presence, worships the grounds he walks, or be enraptured by every comment he utters. What a true man will say, if you give him the time to be an honest man, is he looks for a woman who will do quite the opposite. He looks for a woman who will confound his presence, unsettle his grounds, and shatters the golden calves of his mind like spangles in the sky. What a man looks for is not a woman who is content with a simple shrine, but a woman who sees the vast cosmos as a wonderland of a unimaginable Temple.