The White Rabbit put on it's spectacles. `Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' it asked.
`Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, `and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'

Well, this is a beginning. I have no idea how long the story shall be, so I won't even begin to predict where it may stop.

This will be my rambling page. I may have pictures, or poems or personal insights or whatever I feel to share with the world at large.

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have been favourites as long as I can remember. I had the great privilege of playing the White Rabbit in my High School. I tried for Alice, but I wasn't quite what our school drama teacher/director wanted for the part (blonde hair, no less!)

To find oneself falling down a rabbit hole and into a world where the impossible is quite possible is an imaginary delight for me. Reading this, I was be transported into that world and I would be Alice, The Queen, the Duchess, the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, the Dormouse, the Mad Hatter etc.  in turn.

My imagination has never really been lacking and, although it has taken a bit of a holiday the last few years, it doesn't seem that it will fade away into insignificance. One of my life motto's has been taken from another book... 

“If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!” 

― J.M. Barrie

J.M. Barrie, of course, wrote Peter Pan. Funny, I would rather have been one of the Lost Boys than be Tinkerbell or Wendy. I think the boys had much more fun!  Wendy seemed to get all the responsibility of motherhood without the fun of getting into the dirt and playing with the kids! Hmph! What is the use of going to Neverland if you only get to do the washing up and mending? I suppose it was typical for the time it was written. At least Tiger Lily had more to do than be a weak female.  I guess that is one of the reasons I like Alice so much. She DID stuff! 

I still have dreams of climbing a mountain somewhere and sitting at the top, letting the wind blow in my hair. I dream of going to the vast wilderness areas and drink in the spectacular views, to be awed by the bigness and the beauty of nature. The movie "The secret life of Walter Mitty" appealed to me purely because the movie character DID go and do those things, see those things, experience those things. 

I dream of doing the travel and taking the photo's and one day having that WOW! shot that puts people on their heels. Not because I want them to say "isn't she so good" but because I would feel like I had achieved a major goal, "made a difference".

So, on that note....

"Now, I give you fair warning," shouted the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke; "either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time! Take your choice!"


I am off...until next time.