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Quote Wednesday -- Tolkien

"Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.  You step onto the road and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." -- JRR Tolkien

I love the image of doors... infinite possibilities existing just on the other side.  I want a hallway of doors, each with their own destination.  I want a red door, a blue door, a purple door, a polka-dotted door, a peeling wooden door, a steel door, a rainbow door, a painted mural door, a heavy round door, all different doors.  I want to be able to try different doors, different paths, different worlds, and if I don't like them, exit back out the door and try another.  I love that scene in Alice in Wonderland where Alice opens the tiny door and spies a whole other world.  I want to be like Alice and shrink down to size to fit through the tiny door and experience a whole new world.  I want to throw caution to the wind and venture out.  I want to be like Bilbo and Frodo and journey on an epic quest.  I want to experience the "new", the "old", the "never even imagined."  I want to take over the wheel and steer the course.  I want to be swept off.  I want to live.