...the Dixie Chicks song "Wide Open Spaces" this morning. It popped into my head and caught me by surprise. I'm not normally a fan of country, but there are certain songs for certain times, and this is one of those.
Who doesn't know what I'm talking about?
Who's never left home, who's never struck out?
To find a dream and a life of their own
A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone
Many precede and many will follow
A young girl's dreams no longer hollow
It takes the shape of a place out west
But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the highest stakes
She traveled this road as a child
Wide-eyed and grinning, she never tired
But now she won't be coming back with the rest
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
As her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check the Oil"
Her mom stares out the window and says, "I'm a leavin' my girl"
She says, "It didn't seem like that long ago"
When she stood there and let her own folks know
She needed wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
she Knows the highest stakes
she Knows the highest stakes
she Knows the highest stakes
I'm debating whether to start a new blog to keep my Michigan friends and family updated on what's happening over the next year. I know a lot of them are curious about what I'll be doing down in Texas.
The idea of juggling multiple blogs, and especially while also keeping a personal journal is a daunting task. I'm not sure I'm interesting enough for it. And Blogger, though it's easy to use, doesn't offer a function to determine the privacy level of a post. So my journal here is open for the whole world. If I even attach a secondary blog to my account, those folks will have the potential of stumbling across here. Which, I suppose, isn't such a horrible idea. I mean, if I didn't want something out there, I should keep it off the internet completely. But I like this blog being somewhat under the radar. My following of one is good.
Perhaps, though, I should just open this one to the world, and then keep my private thoughts for phone calls and bound pages.
yay! I'm the following of one! also, I like that song too, even though it's country---the type of music, not the city that you drive through en route to adrian ;)
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