Kiki's Delivery Service.

Watched Kiki's Delivery Service yesterday. I liked it very much - not quite as much as Totoro, but still very much: all the loving detail that went into designing the city, and the random artist-in-the-woods who Kiki meets (I so want an art cabin in the woods. Never mind the solitude would drive me off my tree in a week), and Kiki herself and all her friends.

One of the things I really like about Miyazaki films is that they cast such a broad net for friendships. Kiki is friends with the kindly pregnant baker, and the sweet grandmother who sends her on a delivery - not just people her own age (or even her own species; she's also got a talking cat).

( Spoilers )

On a completely different note: a poem I ran across this evening, and quite liked.

Vade Mecum
by Billy Collins

I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table to be perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry.