Which Way?

BERTSCH DOAN

A magazine cartoon pictured a direction sign with one arrow pointing down a palm-fringed path to "away from it all," while another arrow pointing in the opposite direction was marked simply "it all."

How well this humorous cartoon illustrates the wishful thinking we often indulge in! "Away from it all" usually implies away from cares, burdens, decisions; away from a wearisome round of duties to a place—one hopes—of endless freedom and bliss.