I know I have said it here before, but it bears repeating.  I’m not so crazy about the phrase “It is what it is.”

To that I say… “Wellllll…….  Is it?   And IF it IS what you think it is….. just how can you be so sure?”

To me, the better phrase might be:  We don’t know what we don’t know.

I am always reminded of something like The Land of Oz.  You know…. when Dorothy steps out of the wind swept house… and in to the land of lollipop flowers and toadstool houses.  Then it all goes…… from Black & White to Color.  And she looks at her little dog, and says… “Toto.  I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

Oh.  You might be walking down the street tomorrow….. on the corner of Main and Maple….. and are absolutely sure about things like blue mailboxes, and traffic lights, and corn flakes…. you might even walk around saying “It is what it is.”   Then.  Suddenly,  you blink your eyes…. and  everything looks extremely different and foreign.  Like….   Yellow Brick Roads, and Flying Monkeys.  Poppy Fields.  Horses of Different Colors.  Scarecrows who can talk.

The Lollipop Guild serenades you.

And you are not quite sure what it is you should do next.

Yep.

Simply.  We don’t know, what we don’t know.  And we welcome you to Munchkinland.