Ah Carla, has found Carla. Congradulations friend. You've unlock the
secret to life! Keep up the good work Dorthy!..your friend, lillian
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> From: Elizabeth Patterson <eapat@ewa.net>
> To: mol-cancer@lists.meds.com
> Subject: Re: [MOL] Is there a double meaning in Wizard of Oz?
> Date: Saturday, November 14, 1998 11:00 AM
>
> Hi Carla,
>
> You just earned an "A" from this English teacher for this inciteful and
> well written analogy. May I use it with my students?
>
>
> Liz
>
>
> <excerpt>I am just having such a full day and I thought that I would
> submit this thought to my fellow molers.. Is there a double meaning in
> the Wizard of Oz?
>
>
>
> Dorothy went down the yellow brick road, searching for the way to get
> home. The yellow brick road was filled with such a mix of people and
> events and she met those who were like herself and those who totally
> frightened her. She found beauty and ugly, splendor and dismal, happy
> and sad along the road.
>
>
>
> Her new friends; the scarecrow, the cowardly lion and the tin man,
> were all missing something that they had to find. The scarecrow was in
> search of a brain, the lion searched for courage and the tin man for a
> heart. For Dorothy her quest became a pair of ruby slippers that she
> must wear to get her home.
>
>
>
> Along the yellow brick road, they all became friends and when they
> faced peril together.. they found out that their caring for one another
> gave them what they were searching for all along. In the end, when
> Dorothy got her slippers having conquered the wicked witch of the east,
> the good witch Linda told her that it was there all the time, inside
> her.. She always had the power to go home.
>
>
>
> Well, now I am wondering if this isn't part of what I am learning... I
> have been searching and searching for me and trying to find the parts
> of me that I felt were missing. Is it possible that they have been
> there all of the time, that I was born with everything that I needed
> and that I have just spent 45 years covering it up? Like the
> scarecrow, cowardly lion, tin man, so am I?..
>
>
>
> As with Dorothy, maybe I have always had home (my life) as the goal..
> and the power to return to the spirit that I am.... I just didn't know
> that it was there all along..
>
>
>
> I believe that I am truly learning valuable life lessons and growing in
> leaps and bounds right now and much of my growth is in "de-layering"
> all of the things that I heaped upon the wonderful spirit that I was
> born with...
>
>
>
> I have spent much time thinking that others have taken this away from
> me and now I know I am wrong.. I have allowed these "things" to cover
> the spirit that I am. No one can heap upon you anything that you are
> resilient to... The only way you can have it, is to take ownership of
> it and I have taken ownership of many things in my life needlessly.
> Things have built up in me, because I couldn't see the way, so I have
> allowed my body to get sick with all of this "stuff"...
>
>
>
> Today I feel like I am standing under a waterfall of knowledge flowing
> down on me and I am just standing still feeling the awe of it all.. I
> think that today was a major growth day..
>
>
>
> Thought I would share my thoughts and feelings and see if anyone else
> could relate to Oz...?? I also think that being on this forum has
> given me the blessing of a living journal.. In being able to write to
> you all about my feelings... I grow...
>
>
>
> So my wonderful friends, we have come together on the yellow brick road
> and I pray that we all find what we have been missing... right inside
> ourselves... God Bless you all and goodnight... Love you, Carla
>
> </excerpt>
>
>
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