That says a lot about you that you call it the garden door rather than the back door or kitchen door.
I had never thought of naming doors as ways out, rather than in. So we could now have a Memorial door and a Great Adventure door, if I can re-arrange my brain to think that way.
Although I often think, as I go out the front door, that on the other side is the entire Universe and every adventure there has ever been, ever will be and not taken. Thank Tolkien for that thought.
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step
onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where
you might be swept off to.” Gandalf in The Red Book of Westmarch as translated by J. R. R. Tolkien and published as The Lord of the Rings.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Chapter 64 of the Tao Te Ching ascribed to Laozi.
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That says a lot about you that you call it the garden door rather than the back door or kitchen door.
I had never thought of naming doors as ways out, rather than in. So we could now have a Memorial door and a Great Adventure door, if I can re-arrange my brain to think that way.
Although I often think, as I go out the front door, that on the other side is the entire Universe and every adventure there has ever been, ever will be and not taken. Thank Tolkien for that thought.
But thank you for the Naming of the Doors.
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The Tolkien quote reminds me of a phrase by Tennyson. It's from Ulysses:
"Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move."
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“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
Gandalf in The Red Book of Westmarch as translated by J. R. R. Tolkien and published as The Lord of the Rings.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Chapter 64 of the Tao Te Ching ascribed to Laozi.