This Day

It's funny what, and how, toddlers say things. Alice knows the word "today". She uses it, sometimes. A lot of the time though she prefers to say "this day" instead. And every time I hear Viggo Mortensen giving his speech before the black gate in Return of the King.

Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Stittsville, of Carp, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Mr. Bunny fails, when we forsake our dollies and break all our toys, but it is not this day. An hour of smoke detectors (go beep beep beep) and shattered magnets, when the age of rocket ship rides comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we play and eat cheese! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you *stand, Alices of the Just East of Downtown!*

My head is not a normal place.