Into the great wide open

Goodbye.

Well. Goodbye until December 3. I'm leaving the Herald today, but since someone can't really take over my love life and blog about it, the blog I consider to be mine. I'll be back December 3, after my first holiday away from home, to rehash all the details of a Tennessee Thanksgiving.  

I'm almost sure I've posted once on the beautiful message in one of my favorite musicals, "Into the Woods," but I feel as if it is only appropriate to reblog it as I leave the Herald today.

As sad as I am to leave, it's not possible to grow if you don't throw some new soil into the pot you were planted in. As scary as new beginnings are, it's always worth it to go into the woods...

From Act II, Finale: Children Will Listen

Into the woods you go again,

you have to every now and then,

into the woods no telling when, 

be ready for the journey.

Into the woods but not too fast,

or what you wish you lose at last,

into the woods but mind the past,

into the woods but mind the future...

The way is dark

the light is dim

but now there's you, me, her, and him

the chances look small

the choices look grim

but everything you learn there will help when you return there

the light is getting dimmer

I think I see a glimmer...

Into the woods you have to go

but that's the way you learn to cope

into the woods to find there's hope

of getting through the journey