# The Boy and the Heron

By [about anything](https://paragraph.com/@aboutanything) · 2024-06-26

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Miyazaki has so much generational muscle memory it’s insane. “One day it’s all going to be buried,” I think to myself. “We have to enjoy it now.”

I think the same thing when I talk to my grandma.

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The culmination of Miyazaki‘s career and sensibilities comes down to this: trauma

People don’t just get over things like in the movies. Some things haunt them and they morph into something deeper and they’re never the same person again.

If you’re lucky enough, you may be able to retell what happened to you—and the way you want to—like Miyazaki has somehow managed to do with ever increasing intensity and clarity over the years.

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