In a sea and you are floating,
Swimming 'round the water's blue,
Water, fish and you just floating,
doing just as all should do.

It was salty but not bitter,
It was cool but not quite cold,
Fish were bright but far from shining,
You felt wrinkly but not old.

Then one day all of a sudden,
Water was replaced with sand,
Fish and water at a distance,
You supported by dry land.

The warmth of sandy beaches
From the chill of icy blue,
Felt like candy for the first time,
Something hardly even true.

Here the ocean it looks smaller,
Shining, sparkling in the sun,
Like a race you've run for so long
And now finally you have won.

I don't know about you but I've just never grown out of the whimsical craziness of Alice in Wonderland...it's so absolutely insane yet so undeniably insightful that it never ceases to capture me. From Lewis Carroll to Walt Disney to Johnny Depp it is most certainly one of my most beloved stories and one of my favourite fantasy concepts. Here are just a few of my favourite excerpts from the original Lewis Carroll book:

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.

You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"

"I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then"

"In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?"

"You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness."

"Do you think I've gone round the bend?"

"I'm afraid so. You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are."

Don't forget your raincoat xx

"Eyes Wide Open" - Gotye

"So this is the end of the story
Everything we had, everything we did
Is buried in dust
And this dust is all that's left of us
And only a few ever worried

While the signs were clear
They had no idea
You just get used to living in fear
Or give up
When you can't even picture your future

We walk the plank with our eyes wide open

We walk the plank with our eyes wide open we
(Walk the plank with our eyes wide open we)
Yeah we walk the plank with our eyes wide open we
(Walk the plank with our eyes wide open we)

Some people offered up answers
We made out like we heard
They were only words
They didn't add up
To a change in the way we were living
And the saddest thing
Is all of it could have been avoided

But it was like to stop consuming's to stop being human
And why'd I make a change if you won't?
We're all in the same boat
Staying afloat for the moment

We walk the plank with our eyes wide open we
(Walk the plank with our eyes wide open we)
And we walk the plank with our eyes wide open we
(Walk the plank with our eyes wide open we)
We walk the plank with our eyes wide open we
(Walk the plank with our eyes wide open we)
We walk the plank with our eyes wide open we
(Walk the plank with our eyes wide open we)

With our eyes wide open we
We walk the plank, we walk the plank
With our eyes wide open we
We walk the plank, we walk the plank, we walk the plank
With our eyes wide open we
We walk the plank, we walk the plank
With our eyes wide open we

So that is the end of the story"

Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said, “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!”

"It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide my thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind."


- Alex Karras