The Avengers

     As a small kid I ran to the comic book store to buy the new editions.  I think my Mom got me started on them.  I would stare at the magazine rack in front of me loaded with shiny color and need more.   I also watched all of the superhero shows that were on television.  All of them.  And the movies.  When I was in the third grade and we had to come up with wishes...I wished to meet Christopher Reeve because at the time I was obsessed with Superman.  Somewhere along the way I left my heroes behind.  Maybe I was distracted with big girl stuff.  Maybe I thought superheroes were for kids.  I've been on this weird journey for a few years now and the question I keep coming back to is..."Where does it all go?".  Ya know, the stuff that makes us enjoy our childhood.  I keep trying to find bits and pieces of it to see which I should recapture and which is really just the stuff of babies.  If I meet someone new and they seem interesting I jump right in because that's what kids do.  I carve out time to daydream.  I sing when I feel like it.  I have even started to enjoy just playing games.  Even video games.  I get dirty at work.  I think in poetic verses.  I search all of the time for the magic of being young and excited...
     Somewhere along the path I dumped my heroes for the world of adults.  I have to tell you...the heroes were better.  They gave me hope.  They taught me lessons.  They made me feel good.  I am starting to admire the comic book shop dorks that we find funny on television because somewhere along the way they didn't let go.  Now, I'm not defending people stuck in their childhoods but I have seen the other side.  Just as I have read books again as an adult or watched movies again since childhood...I am revisiting the superhero.  I get different things out of the novels, the classics and the poems because I can understand them on a whole new level.  Same with movies.  There was so much more to learn. 
     I saw The Avengers.  The movie is exciting, hysterically funny and has amazing action.  The writing is smart, the acting is rich and the characters are full.  The special effects are beyond special and the concepts within them are brilliant.  The story of each hero is exciting enough...but to tie them all in together is fantastic.  I could go on and on about the levels and lessons of the movie but the record breaking numbers for opening weekend have said enough.  The Avengers brought safety back to the world and they brought a little piece of this little girl back to life.  Thank you...and your oh so beautiful muscles.