〜 Spirited Away by Miyazaki in Miyazaki 〜

​After a quiet afternoon visit to the Miyazaki Shrine, I was 'Spirited Away' by the Studio Ghibli exhibition at the nearby art museum.  They had thousands of pages of original layout drawings drafted by the directors' own hand and intention, marked up with staging directions and filming cues.  From this world of increasing polarization, it was a magical escape into the deep nonjudgmental acceptance and integration that Ghibli consistently portrays from the very first scenes of the debut 'Nausicaa' through classics like 'Totoro', 'Kiki', and 'Mononoke' to the most recent 'Marnie'.  This is the summer that Miyazaki came to Miyazaki--