And the entire time I thanked God in my head. Not the God within me anymore. I’m past that. We’re the same. Source. I just have to have someone besides me to whom to be grateful but I’m always reminded, “You did all the work to get here.”

Because it’s not just about the Sound of Music, is it? It’s about being at a place in life where I can truly appreciate something that I’ve loved all my life and never knew quite why.

Be sure, like Alice in Carroll’s Wonderland, Maria is the Hero of this story, and she’s the Aphrodite figure, same as Alice. Venus motif. She can’t conform. That’s the beginning of awakening. She really wants to. She says as much. But she can’t do it. And by the end Maria becomes the healer herself. She heals the von Trapp family. She leads them in ascension to where? It never quite says, does it? Because it doesn’t really matter. (Did Jesus go to Space?) But it’s with fearless courage for what might await them.