Brigadoon

[mrdisman]

Disney is my Brigadoon, an idyllic and magical world,remote from the outside world. A place untouched by time. But unlike the original story, the world of Disney appears once a year for some of us, instead of every 100 years.

How many of you see Disney as their Brigadoon?

 

[JiminyandTink]

After Googling "Brigadoon"... yes, I supose it sort of is

 

[cowanfamily]

Yes, Brigadoon was one of my fathers favorite movies.

 

[mrdisman]

After Googling "Brigadoon"... yes, I supose it sort of is

A friend of mine made the analogy...said like Brigadoon...the World only opened up to him once a year

 

[mrdisman]

Yes, Brigadoon was one of my fathers favorite movies.

Good movie

 

[bethymouse]

Gene Kelly! Ah! It's a play/musical as well. It's one of my faves! I also enjoy Finnian's Rainbow, but it's not Disney. Anything w/ a pot o' gold in it is good for me! Nice analogy mrdisman.

 

[mrdisman]

Thank you

 

[Figgy1]

I hate it when you're right! lol

 

[mrdisman]

I hate it when you're right! lol

Good thing it isn't often

 

[Figgy1]

Good thing it isn't often

True very true!

 

[mrdisman]

I've learned that through the years...

 

[Disvillain63]

A+ for a great analogy.

 

[zurgandfriend]

I knew what you were taking about without having to google it, I saw the movie in a theater with my folks many many moons ago.

 

[Missymoe4]

Thanks for explaining the reference I enjoy learning new things...

Yes, I do suffer from the Brigadoon.
In fact, most of the time people don't know how 'into' Disney I am, and the fact that I go every summer. I like keeping WDW my 'secret' place because it's that special to me. I don't need/want intruders who want to spoil my fun (not that I would allow that anyhow...).

When I'm in Disney, I'm in a whole new secret world. W.B. Yeats' poem "Sailing to Byzantium" reminds me of the Brigadoon reference. Yeats' writes:

That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
--Those dying generations -- at their song,...

Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

...although Byzantium for Yeats' signifies youth and the 'ideal', Disney is in many ways my Byzantium. I will forever feel like a 5 year old girl walking in those gates. Disney casts it's spell on me, and like Yeats, I wish to forever sail to my Byzantium.

 

[mrdisman]

A+ for a great analogy.

thanks Teach!

 

[mrdisman]

Thanks for explaining the reference I enjoy learning new things...

Yes, I do suffer from the Brigadoon.
In fact, most of the time people don't know how 'into' Disney I am, and the fact that I go every summer. I like keeping WDW my 'secret' place because it's that special to me. I don't need/want intruders who want to spoil my fun (not that I would allow that anyhow...).

When I'm in Disney, I'm in a whole new secret world. W.B. Yeats' poem "Sailing to Byzantium" reminds me of the Brigadoon reference. Yeats' writes:

That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
--Those dying generations -- at their song,...

Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

...although Byzantium for Yeats' signifies youth and the 'ideal', Disney is in many ways my Byzantium. I will forever feel like a 5 year old girl walking in those gates. Disney casts it's spell on me, and like Yeats, I wish to forever sail to my Byzantium.

I like that...
I've been asked many times why I want to go to Disney every year...even by my family.. I just tell them, "if you have to ask, you don't understand.." People at work even make fun of this...say..."oh..he's the Disney guy..."

I refrain from beating them

 

[Figgy1]

I like that...
I've been asked many times why I want to go to Disney every year...even by my family.. I just tell them, "if you have to ask, you don't understand.." People at work even make fun of this...say..."oh..he's the Disney guy..."

I refrain from beating them

That must be difficult! I admire your restraint!

 

[mrdisman]

That must be difficult! I admire your restraint!

at times yes...and thank you...I show great restraint at times

 

[Missymoe4]

I like that...
I've been asked many times why I want to go to Disney every year...even by my family.. I just tell them, "if you have to ask, you don't understand.." People at work even make fun of this...say..."oh..he's the Disney guy..."

I refrain from beating them

...ah, yes! If I have to explain, it's not worth my words. You either "get it" or don't.
And when people find out I go to WDW yearly, they say: "again?" To which I reply with a simple: "yup!" Some people just don't get it, and that's fine...I'd rather WDW be filled with people who love the place and enjoy it rather than hate on it.

Although, if it were my family, I may have a more difficult time with that. As it is, I reference Disney daily with them...

 

[ifuhadwings]

Brigadoon huh? Disney is a Mecca, an idea, a feeling, an unquenchable thirst, an odyssey, a burn, an itch, a pleasure, a grin, a secret grin to keep in your pocket for you and only you. Shhhh...a whisper inside.