The Far Unlit Unknown

Imagine my surprise when I found out I LIVE in the Far Unlit Unknown!

Friends, there's this song by Rush called "Subdivisions," and it really speaks to me.  I've been loving that song ever since the first time I heard it. 

At first, when I'd hear the song, I'd feel superior, because it mentions the Far Unlit Unknown, and I figured anybody that lives in the Far Unlit Unknown must be dreadfully provincial, why, would they ever have seen light-switches or flush-toilets?  I surely didn't think so!

Well then, Mommy started tellin' me about the city.  Then she told me that the song is talking about the suburbs, but not as a happy place... as a dreary place where everybody has to be the same and measure up to some kind of standard of cool, or they don't get to participate in suburban society out in the subdivisions.

Then she really dropped the bomb on me and told me that I actually live in the Far Unlit Unknown, where GPS can't find us, where there are no street signs and even fewer lampposts.  I was mortified at first.  MORTIFIED!

But then I got to thinkin' about it, and the Far Unlit Unknown isn't so bad, Friends.  We have a lot of room out here. Not only do we have light switches and flush toilets, but we have room to define our own sense of what's cool.  And if our definition doesn't match up with someone else's, there's room enough for everybody to have their own version of cool.

The city people and the subdivision people might be afraid of us and our way of life because they don't know how we live like we do, but we know it's actually pretty great out here in the Far Unlit Unknown.  Sure, we have to drive two hours in any direction to get anywhere of note or interest, but you know what?  That's all the more time I get to spend listening to good music in the car.  It's all part of the experience.

So Friends, don't tell the city people, but it isn't so bad out here in the Far Unlit Unknown. I like it. 

Hey.  I'll see ya tomorrow.  I love ya lots!  Muah!