Dream Big

While I was in Cardston I got to go to a community musical. This one was Tom Sawyer -very fun, and on the program was a list of all the musicals that had happened in previous years. And way back in the list were two musicals that I remember going to when I was a little girl living in Cardston. Showboat and Man of La Mancha. I remember how they moved me. I particularly carried away with me the memory of the song that the Man of La Mancha sings. I was thinking about it today and thinking how cool it would be to jazz it up. Like if this guy were to sing it to us - and from his heart, how cool that would sound. Do you know the song? To dream the impossible dream - to fight the unbeatable foe - To bear with unbearable sorrow - to run where the brave dare not go - to right the unrightable wrong - to love pure and chaste from afar - To try when your arms are too weary - to reach the unreachable star - This is my quest to follow that star no matter how hopeless -No matter how far - to fight for the right without question or pause -To be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause - And I know if I'll only be true to this glorious quest -That my heart will lie peaceful and calm when I'm laid to my rest - And the world will be better for this that one man scorned and covered with scars - Still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable star.

I am a dreamer. Onto another topic I watched Horton Hears a Who. I wish I had every line memorized from that movie. The only other movie I did that with was the Princess Bride. I really think this movie deserves to be one of the greats, written on our hearts. "In my world everyone is a pony who eats rainbows and poops butterflies" ....

"Look at what he's got the children doing! Their using their imaginations!"

If you haven't see it I hope that won't ruin the movie for you. If you have seen it, I really identify with Horton. Its a side of me I might show you if I sense you would also believe in things that you can't touch or see but are real and important and worth giving your life to serve and protect - even if no one else believes you - even if you have to live being ridiculed for it. Hmm, ... I guess Horton and The Man of La Mancha aren't really much different from each other after all!