Blog 736 – 08.28.2017
And What Of You, Tink?

I have written a great deal about the importance of what we think in shaping our world. But, though the title, And What Of You, Tink?, sounds like, What Do You Think? I really plan a piece about Tinker Bell, perhaps the least covered character in the Peter Pan Story. In some versions, and I am thinking of the Mary Martin stage play of the early nineteen fifties,Tink was played by a flashlight. Fortunately animation and modern camera technique and computer graphics made a fuller depiction of her character possible.

Most of us do not know her back story very well. She is a fairy but most fairies dance and perform great and heroic deeds like Sabrina, the water sprite, who saved her love. That story is recounted in one of my favorite movies – Sabrina, about a beautiful girl played by Audrey Hepburn in the fifties version and Julia Ormond in the nineties version. The title character was named after the tiny heroine, Sabrina Fair, the fairy.

Tinker Bell was not of the dancing or heroic variety but was, as her name implies, a tinker – a fixer of things. Even so she happened upon an assignment that had great importance for indeed all the players in the story but especially for Peter, the main character. Tinker’s pixie dust not only enabled Peter to fly but the other children as well and indeed the sailing ship that was their transport. But the one thing that really made the pixie dust work is what makes everything work really – belief or thought. A famous line about the power of thought says, “As a man (woman or child too) thinks in his (or her) heart so is he (she.) I spend a lot of time unqualifying the sexes because I believe what applies to one applies to all. The words believe and think are synonyms by the way. Some religions try to co-op thinking or believing and make it almost magical and perhaps it is but not in the very limited way they use it. I believe or think with Tinker Bell that anything we can think or believe can and will become real in our lives unless we ourselves sabotage those those thoughts/beliefs with other conflicting ones. Mixed signals cancel out the requests our thoughts send out into the Universe and it is from those seeds that our world around us takes shape. As everything comes from nothing but thought, thought also has the power to send those things we perhaps unintentionally created back into nothingness. We are magnificent beings with more power than we dream or more precisely the power to make anything we dream come true.

And I know all this may sound crazy if it is new to you. But we all thought it and believed it once when fairy tales were more real to us than scientific theories or the commonly accepted mass delusion we call materialism – that stuff comes from stuff and that the goal is always more money (by Hook, remember him? He was the bad guy in the story) or Crook (That means cheating someone else.) so we can buy more stuff.

Tinker Bell was not selling anything, not even faith, just stating an incontrovertible fact – what ever you think or believe, you can do. Yes, Mr. R. Kelly, even fly if you think you can. Even those who wait for a plane to do their flying in still have to have a lot of belief in things most of us do not understand to think a plane heavier than air can fly,  or maybe just a lot of pixie dust.

Sometimes we create a lot of messes by mis-thinking but we can and indeed do think ourselves out of as many messes as we think ourselves into. Like Tink, we thinkers, tink around a lot. We commonly call that living. And it can be ever so grand if we think it so, huh Tink?

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White