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netpositive ([personal profile] netpositive) wrote2009-12-03 05:33 pm

Looking far out

If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat

-Lyle Lovett
    When I was a child, I read Thor Heyerdahl.
    So I've been in sacred caves on Easter Island.

    When I was a child, I read Joy Adamson.
    So I've been to the savanna and run wild.

    When I was a child, I read J.R.R. Tolkien.
    So I've been to Middle Earth and met Ents.

    I'm not bad at traveling once I get going.
    But I never really understand it
    until I get there.

    If then.

    I want to go to the place where I want to be.

    You know where that is?

    I don't.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
-Herman Melville

[identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com 2009-12-03 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Do any of us ever know? I know I'm happy to be here in a place called LJ, and happy you're here too.

[identity profile] patches023.livejournal.com 2009-12-04 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Love the LL song.