[at-l] Slightly off-topic, but . . .

[optimyst at gmail.com (Richard C Evans)]

Cool!  Thanks!

Happy trails,

Solar Bear

On 9/18/05, Robert Rubin <rhymworm@gmail.com> wrote:
> . . . but it was inspired by hiking past old ruined monasteries along
> the North Downs Way in England.
> 
> Anyway, if any of you listers are in the D.C. area Monday, Sept. 26,
> you're hereby invited to stop by the Round House Theatre and see the
> first staged reading of my new play (a musical actually, although it
> won't be sung on the 26th, just read and acted by local actors).
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/rhymworm/mpsrhtml2.htm
> 
> To make it more on topic, I attach below one of the lyrics from the
> play, which is sort of applicable to making the break and setting off
> on a thru-hike (it's actually a duet, but, what the heck):
> 
> TWO FOR THE ROAD
> 
> Cast off the moorings and pull up the stakes,
> leave all your baggage--whatever it takes.
> Put down your burdens and lighten your load.
> Together we'll manage it--two for the road.
> 
> Two for the road! That's the way it should be.
> I'll go for you if you'll go for me.
> No one indebted and nobody owed.
> Only the two of us--two for the road.
> 
> Nothing to hold us back, no doors are shut.
> No fears and no regrets, no matter what.
> And when another dawn's rooster has crowed
> we'll leave this all behind, two for the road!
> 
> Two for the road! That's the way it should be.
> I'll go for you, if you'll go for me.
> No one indebted and nobody owed.
> Only the two of us--two for the road.
> 
> There must be a thousand reasons why we ought to wait.
> And with every change of seasons more accumulate.
> Quick now here's our chance, run, run before it's too late!
> No, not a backward glance, none, leave and don't close the gate!
> 
> After the wind has swirled, after the storm ?
> After we've left our homes, safe, dry, and warm ?
> Walking past white moonlit fields where it's snowed ?
> We'll leave new footprints there--two for the road.
> 
> Two for the road! That's the way it should be.
> I'll go for you if you'll go for me.
> No one indebted and nobody owed.
> Only the two of us--two for the road.
> 
> --Rhymin' Worm
> 
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