To Narnia

Now we're back to the beginning
It's just  a feeling that no one know's yet.
Just because they can't feel it too
Doesn't mean that you have to forget.
Let your memories grow stronger and stronger

Till they're before your eyes.

You'll come back
When they call you
No need to say goodbye.

-The Call, Regina Spektor 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQVDkZYbtkI

To:  my friend, Gabe/ Edmund 

Now at last they were at the beginning of chapter one of the Great Story no one on earth has ever read, which goes one forever; in which every chapter is better then the one before.

-C.S Lewis, The Last Battle 

(A mother writes C.S. Lewis regarding her son who feels guilt because he loves Aslan more then he loves Jesus.  C. S. Lewis replies:)
"For the things he loves Aslan for doing or saying are simply the things that Jesus really did and said.  So when Laurence thinks he is loving Aslan, he is really loving Jesus, and perhaps loving him more then he ever did before."

Me as the Dwarf (Ginnabrick) and my Wood Nymph friend

Susan:  "Peter, do you think we'll ever find our way back to Narnia?"
Peter:  "If we're lucky Susan.  If we're very lucky."

-The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Dramatized by Joseph Robinette

I spend six months in Narnia.  I returned from being there a couple years ago, when I read the books.  I'd never been so engulfed in a series before.  Reading has never been one of my brightest subjects but Narnia captivated me.  When I returned home from a vacation, I refused to get out of the car until I had finished reading the Silver Chair.  I spend an extra 15 in the car after reading it to ponder on it's brilliance.  I'm not the only weirdo who's been captivated by Narnia.  How does it never grow old?
I learned a few interesting facts while I was in the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe play.  That C.S Lewis suffered from P.T.S.D.  And he wrote.  A lot.  It was his therapy.  And he created Narnia, kinda of his escape.  That's when I pieced it together in my head.  The reason so many people feel a sense of freedom on reading Narnia.  It was made as an escape, it was C.S Lewis's escape too.
          I escaped to Narnia again through a play.  We performed our last show a week ago, and as Peter and Susan said their last lines, the little Dwarf behind the curtain cried because she didn't want to leave.  Because in her darkest of times she had Narnia to escape to, and it was time to say goodbye.
This is my thank you note to Narnia.  

Thank you for being there for me.