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.
