The other morning driving to work along my usual route I had a day dream. The suburban street ahead seemed to morph into an English village, like Elsworth in Cambridgeshire where we stayed last year. The Catholic church up ahead seemed to become the medieval Anglican parish church while the Telephone Exchange on the opposite corner with its mobile phone towers seemed to become (believe it or not) a castle. The road leading off to the left between the trees seemed to offer such promise, an adventure filled with new things. Naturally I had to turn right to go to work!
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could detach from our own world and enter that magical world of our dreams , which the real world never seems to quite match. If we could explore that road on the left and if it warranted it, never return, but wander down country roads and lanes forever. Shades of Jim and Huck Finn floating down the Mississippi, although even that had to end eventually.
Laurey captures the mood for me when she sings in 'Oklahoma!':
Out of my dreams and into your arms
I long to fly
I will come as evening comes
To world of waitin' sky
Out of my dreams and into the hush
Of fallin' shadows
When the mist is low
And stars are breakin' through
Then out of my dreams I'll go
Into a dream with you...
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