💚🟨 BEYOND THE BEND
There is something peculiar about a Yellow Brick Road.
It tells you where to step...
but it does not tell you what you will find there.
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Perhaps that is part of the gift.
If Dorothy had been handed a complete map of Oz before taking her first step...
every friend marked,
every danger circled,
every surprise explained,
every destination numbered...
there would have been a journey.
But there would have been considerably less wonder.
🏮 THE LANTERN DOESN’T LIGHT THE WHOLE ROAD
A lantern has never promised to illuminate the horizon.
It gives enough light for this part of the Road.
The next stone.
The next choice.
Perhaps the next companion.
And then...
another little circle of light.
We often wish life worked differently.
We want the whole map.
We want guarantees.
We want to know whether the bridge holds before stepping onto it.
We want tomorrow to send us its itinerary.
Tomorrow is notoriously uncooperative.
So we walk.
🟨 THE ROAD BENDS FOR A REASON
A bend in the Road hides something.
That can feel uncomfortable.
But consider the alternative.
A perfectly straight road stretching visibly from beginning to end would certainly be efficient.
It might also be terribly dull.
Curiosity lives around corners.
Discovery lives beyond horizons.
Friendships frequently arrive without reservations.
And some of the most important destinations in our lives begin with:
“I wonder what is over there?”
⛵ EVEN THE FLOTILLA NEEDS HORIZONS
Our little YBR Flotilla has crossed seas, visited islands, encountered kingdoms, peculiar peoples and places that seem determined to prove Oz has never heard the phrase ordinary geography.
And every departure contains the same marvelous moment.
The ships are ready.
The lines are cast loose.
The sails begin to fill.
But ahead...
only horizon.
Santa YBR does not need to know everything waiting beyond it.
Neither do we.
We need a compass.
A Lantern.
Good companions.
And enough courage to leave the harbor.
♾️ PERHAPS THAT IS WHAT POSSIBILITY LOOKS LIKE
Not certainty.
Not a completed map.
Not every answer arranged neatly in advance.
Possibility may simply be a Road disappearing around a bend...
and someone willing to follow it.
So today, if you cannot see very far ahead...
that does not necessarily mean you are lost.
You may simply have reached the part of the story
you have not written yet.
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The Lantern is lit.
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The Road continues.
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And somewhere beyond the horizon...
Oz is waiting.
Where shall we sail next?
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