"The Today Road is by the brook and we call it that because it is lovely now. The Yesterday Road is out in the stumps where Lofty John cut some trees down and we call it that because it used to be lovely. The Tomorrow Road is just a tiny path in the maple clearing and we call it that because it is going to be lovely some day..."
L.M Montgomery (Emily of New Moon)
I actually spent over a week just thinking of a name for this blog. I wanted something interesting, something faerie, and something bookish that was only 3 or 4 words long, which believe me is harder than it may seem! I was working on my first writing assignment for my Institute of Children's Literature course and my brainstorming sent me to my bookshelf for some good old-fashioned fairy stories and some L.M Montgomery, who--though she did not write about faerie--knew how to get there. So I was reading Emily of New Moon last night and the quote about her roads jumped out at me. One thing I love about Anne Shirley and Emily Starr is their ability to name places and things. Anne has her Lake of Shining Waters and Lover's Lane, but Emily has some of the best names: the Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Roads, the Disappointed House, the Wind Woman, and The Three Princesses (trees). So I chose the name The Tomorrow Road for this blog because while we are walking the Today Road and living in the present, TOMORROW is such a lovely word and the choices we make and the way we live today help create our tomorrow. Its kind of like one of my favorite movie quotes: "What we do in life echoes in eternity." I want my day-to-day life to make good echoes. I want to think and write about what is meaningful, important, and lasting. So I really don't know what all I will write in this blog...Sometimes musings on my writing course, sometimes about the baby (my darling munchkin: MDM), occasionally I may post my favorite quotes or thoughts on the book(s) I am reading. That's how I am going to start. But I hope that whatever I post is uplifting, encouraging, and smells of roses and not of skunk cabbage! I am in a L.M Montgomery mood tonight, so I found some of my favorite quotes--thank goodness for Google or I'd be up all night trying to find them in my books! A baby post will probably come tomorrow!
"There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize what they have lost; and that is the tragedy of life. On that day the gates of Eden are shut behind them and the age of gold is over. Henceforth they must dwell in the common light of common day. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland."
— L.M. Montgomery (The Story Girl)
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?"
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
"Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
L.M Montgomery (Emily of New Moon)
I actually spent over a week just thinking of a name for this blog. I wanted something interesting, something faerie, and something bookish that was only 3 or 4 words long, which believe me is harder than it may seem! I was working on my first writing assignment for my Institute of Children's Literature course and my brainstorming sent me to my bookshelf for some good old-fashioned fairy stories and some L.M Montgomery, who--though she did not write about faerie--knew how to get there. So I was reading Emily of New Moon last night and the quote about her roads jumped out at me. One thing I love about Anne Shirley and Emily Starr is their ability to name places and things. Anne has her Lake of Shining Waters and Lover's Lane, but Emily has some of the best names: the Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Roads, the Disappointed House, the Wind Woman, and The Three Princesses (trees). So I chose the name The Tomorrow Road for this blog because while we are walking the Today Road and living in the present, TOMORROW is such a lovely word and the choices we make and the way we live today help create our tomorrow. Its kind of like one of my favorite movie quotes: "What we do in life echoes in eternity." I want my day-to-day life to make good echoes. I want to think and write about what is meaningful, important, and lasting. So I really don't know what all I will write in this blog...Sometimes musings on my writing course, sometimes about the baby (my darling munchkin: MDM), occasionally I may post my favorite quotes or thoughts on the book(s) I am reading. That's how I am going to start. But I hope that whatever I post is uplifting, encouraging, and smells of roses and not of skunk cabbage! I am in a L.M Montgomery mood tonight, so I found some of my favorite quotes--thank goodness for Google or I'd be up all night trying to find them in my books! A baby post will probably come tomorrow!
"There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize what they have lost; and that is the tragedy of life. On that day the gates of Eden are shut behind them and the age of gold is over. Henceforth they must dwell in the common light of common day. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland."
— L.M. Montgomery (The Story Girl)
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?"
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
"Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
"she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Windy Poplars)
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Windy Poplars)
"And people make fun of me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"
— L.M. Montgomery
"I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea)
"It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island)
Sweet dreams dear world! Goodnight!
— L.M. Montgomery
"I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea)
"It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island)
Sweet dreams dear world! Goodnight!
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