Road Out Of Oz
Quote – Happiness
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” – Orson Welles.
From Bad To Worse
Dorothy’s run-in with Almira Gulch is the beginning of a series of progressively worsening events. No one at home understands why she’s so upset. They’re too busy and they brush her aside with shallow, disjointed advice. She falls into the pig pen and is threatened by the pigs. Then, to top it off, Almira Gulch…
Quote – Uncertainty
“The opportunity that lies beyond the uncertainty is so great.” – from the movie, I’m Fine, Thanks.
The Big One Hits
Life on the farm gets progressively harder for Dorothy, as she feels Elmia Gulch breathing down her neck. She starts to run away, only to be reminded by Mr. Marvel that there are some things you just can’t run away from. Just when she decides to give it another try, she sees it. A twister,…
Quote – Goals
“It isn’t where you come from, it’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
Not in Kansas Anymore
When the cyclone finishes with Dorothy, it leaves her disheveled and disoriented. Covered with the dust of the old house, Dorothy makes her way to the front door. She grabs the door knob and wonders what she will find on the other side. Will her family be alright? Will there be anything left of the…
Quote – Self-Mastery
“He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.” – Lao Tzu.
These People are Different!
After the cyclone, Dorothy steps out of her dropped and dilapidated house to encounter the Munchkins, slowly coming out of hiding. They are not like the people she’s use to. Small in stature, they are warm and winsome. But Dorothy soon discovers the Munchkins are far from naive. They have know their own desperate times,…
One Witch Down and Another To Go.
After arriving in Oz, Dorothy discovers that she has unknowingly ended the tyranny of a witch. The cyclone that brought her to Oz, also dropped her house on the Wicked Witch of the East. In effect, she defeated a witch just by showing up! Glenda and the Munchkins make a big deal of this and see her…
Quote – Life
“Life becomes more expansive when I can see beyond just here, and just now, and just me.” – Bret Legg