A favorite quote from Claire in the movie Elizabethtown

Everybody thinks it's about "there". That getting "there" is all that, but that so totally misses the point. It's about the journey, the getting, not the there.


There's great, of course. I mean, it's where you want to be, but there is so much incredible stuff you get along the way. That's what I call the gift of there. Like opening a present, though, you have to open your eyes - and your heart and mind, really - to see it! Still... it's all there, though, on the way there.


Welcome to my America - a place I'd like to believe is worth going through eyes wide open on the way there. My America, a land of wonder, of sparkle and glory, hope, dreams, opportunity, county fairs, iron bridges, elephant ears, dog trots and old book stores that smell of other people's lives.


It's a pretty great place, even if it's not there. But hey, like I said, if the getting could be as sweet as the there, now that's a pretty good deal, indeed.

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