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The title of this blog, "Halfway Up the Stairs" is taken from an A.A. Milne poem that was put to music and performed by the Muppets. I think it perfectly describes my feelings about life, that none of us have "arrived" yet. We've all stopped at that middle stair, where "there isn't other stair quite like it."

Here's a clip of Robin the Frog, singing it on a "Muppets Show" episode, performed by Jerry Nelson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGFR3zz12p0

Of course, the best version of this beautiful song is Jerry Nelson's performance at the 1990 funeral of Jim Henson (5:14 in):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHe39ZTCs-4

And here are the lyrics:

Halfway down the stairs is a stair where I sit.
There isn't any other stair quite like it.
I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top.
So this is the stair where I always stop.

Halfway up the stairs isn't up and isn't down.
It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town.
And all sorts of funny thoughts run round my head.
It isn't really anywhere, it's somewhere else instead.

Halfway down the stairs is a stair where I sit.
There isn't any other stair quite like it.
I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top.
So this is the stair where I always stop.