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Elphaba & Glinda Wickedly Defying Gravity by Changing Old Stories

Honoring the magic and legacy of living young in heart

jules - Miz Mindful
Write Under the Moon
4 min readDec 12, 2024

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Glinda and Elphaba as children behind cracked rose-colored glasses merging with half Glinda half Elphaba images against a purple and blue glittered background
Image created by the author jules — Miz Mindful with Canva Pro and CF

There is a magical force within that drives us toward creative storytelling.

Whether through written words, poetic prose, artistic images, or song and dance, we can share a light of hopes and dreams, along with tragedies and misfortune that come from an undefined drive and resilience to change old stories of the past.

Over the years, I have learned that we are not here to erase or create new stories but to rewrite parts of the old ones for future generations. And that takes time.

The recent film adaptation of the story Wicked shined all its bright movie lights on my yellow brick road. It landed me over the rainbow to the freedom place where bluebirds fly, with a knowing, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I can now defy the gravity of all my old beliefs.

shattered dreams
of rose-colored glass visions
propel explosions of rainbow stars
spiraling high above
changing tornado winds
lightning wicked rebellion bolts
cracking conformed
patterns of sunshine bricks
glistened with raindrop
tears from green skies
quenching…

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jules - Miz Mindful
jules - Miz Mindful

Written by jules - Miz Mindful

Mixing words as Miz Mindful -- artist, writer, Canva Design Ambassador, Owner of Canva Chronicles, editor of Creations Over Coffee, but just call me jules

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