Since I was taken to a hospital room three days ago and attached to I.V. antibiotics and oxygen, it makes sense that I might ask somebody to
Take me to the world!
My laptop computer, which I took with me to the Emergency Room on Sunday, takes me to the world. This is the song that was playing right before I started creating this post, which took me to the world.
Here are lyrics from Stephen Sondheim’s “Take Me to the World” that I’d like to take to the world:
Let me see the world with clouds
Take me to the world
Out where I can push through crowds
Take me to the worldA world that smiles
With streets instead of aisles
Where I can walk for miles with youTake me to the world that’s real
Show me how it’s done
Teach me how to laugh, to feel
Move me to the sunJust hold my hand whenever we arrive
Take me to the world where I can be aliveLet me see the world that smiles
Take me to the world
Somewhere I can walk for miles
Take me to the worldWith all around things growing in the ground
Where birds that make a sound are birdsLet me see the world that’s real
Teach me how to laugh, to feel
We could laugh together
Move me to the sunJust hold my hand whenever we arrive
Take me to the world where I can be aliveDo you want the world?
Why then, you shall have the world
Ask me for the world again
You shall have the worldA world of skies
That’s bursting with surprise
To open up your eyes for joyWe shall see the world come true
We shall have the world
I won’t be afraid with you
We shall have the world
You’ll hold my hand and know you’re not aloneYou shall have the world to keep
Such a lovely world you’ll weep
We shall have the world forever for our own
Here are photos from my hospital room that I want to take to the world, here and now:
Any comments you’d like to take to the world?
Thanks to Stephen Sondheim, Evening Primrose, Theresa McCarthey and Neil Patrick Harris, the caring staff at Tufts Medical Center, my friend Megan for the flowers, and you — of course! — for taking me to the world with your presence, today.
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Hope you’re on the mend!
I seem to be!
I like going with you wherever the world takes you, Ann. Hope you feel better very soon.
I like going with you, too, Maureen. I am feeling better today.
A woman who can keep up her daily posting in such circumstances deserves to be out soon
And I might get what I deserve!
Dear Ann, You ARE in the world. Always. (Even though it might not always feel like it.)
I love being in the same world with you, Heila.
❤
Such pretty flowers those are. The world misses you too Ann- hope you are doing better today ❤
I am doing better today. Thanks for your help, Lisa! ❤
Sending positive energy your way. Practice your Spidey skills. It will startle the staff. Hope you feel better soon.
I am startling the staff and feeling better. Thanks for the positive energy!
Since I was disconnected for a fe days, I had no idea. Sorry they have captured you again and hope you are back out in the role again quite soon!
I might even be back out tomorrow!
Here’s what you deserve to be, no matter what four walls are around you, dear Ann Koplow.
Thanks, King Mark!
So, you insist on being there eh? Okay. I get it. Heart health and all. So here’s a happy heart song for your heart.
Tap your foot with your Michael. 🙂
This is making my heart healthier!
😀
yes. 😁
Thank you for taking this comment to the world!
ok
The world you create is a world we all need to be taken to Ann.
Sending you light and love and healing graces to ease your breathing and strengthen your heart.
It’s working, Louise! ❤
The comment I’d like to take to the world is I hope you’ll be better soon, and, in the spirit of Sondheim, send in the clowns.
If you insist, Chris.
Feel better, speedy recovery, Ann!
I’m working on it! ❤
I haven’t been in to read your blog in for a bit, and here you are in the hospital! Have to work my way backwards in your blog while you work your way forward in the same space. Both of us will make it to the proper exit — the sooner for you, the better! And writing will help. Keep going!
I am following your advice, Claudia!
I hope you get back to your regular world soon. You’ve been having it tough lately – as if I have to tell you that,
I may be getting back to my regular world tomorrow, Bradley. Thank you for your empathy. It helps!
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