These are a few of my favorite things

If you asked me what three of my favorite things are, I would say lighthouses, dragons, and trains. I'm not sure why, but those three things have always had some special quality for me, and for some reason, have all been put into the same category. I have no idea what that category would be, but somehow they all seem... to belong together. Maybe not together... I dont' know, they have the same feel about them. Well, not exactly I guess... There is some part of their essence that binds them together as three points of a triangle. I know that sounds totally crazy and melodramatic... but I guess I don't care.

Oddly enough, dragons (or dragon) and lighthouses (or lighthouse...) are both prominant in one of my favorite childhood movies - Pete's Dragon. Actually, "odd" was the wrong word to use, cause that makes total sense that they would both hold a childlike magid spell over me. Kind of a weird movie, but I still love the music from it, and frequently listen to it on my ipod. Trains, I'm not so sure. But there are all sorts of train songs that I hear, and somehow I'm just sure that I heard them before, long ago. "Starlight Express," "Midnight Train to Georgia," the one about a midnight train going aaaaaanywheeeeeeere ;-), and even Elton John's "This Train Don't Stop." Others too, that I can't remember right now. Some of those I blame on "Shining Time Station" and the little box they used to watch short films in - it always played train songs. Though I seriously doubt if it played a song about a musician who's disillusioned with his life and art (that would be the Elton John song.)

Lighthouses always stand where land meets water, and that's always been one of my favorite places to be. They also look to the sea, which has always been one of my favorite places to look.

Dragons represent magic and other worlds - the things and places that have held my facination for as long as I can remember.

When you come across traintracks, look down both ways. One way is ordinary, and looks completely normal. But the other way is magic, and you feel like if you could just follow those tracks, you might end up somewhere very special. Like even the walking along them would be something special. Dave laughed the first time I said that, but then he looked down both ways and told me I did have a point.

Why am I rambling about this today? I blame the weather. There's sleeping energy in the air today.