Dream Act

Very proud of my daughter.

"Our community is only as strong as the dreams within it"

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The College Search

Good times. Remembering long hours thinking about my children's future.




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Aurora over Finland

For all the times we thought we could finish up early on surgery and get to Finland, it never happened. Still hoping to see the aurora borealis one of these days/nights.

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Is It Tuesday Yet??

Watertiger gently reminds me the correct question is, Is it Wednesday yet.

I hear echoes from dreams - anguished dreams - far, far away. My esp antennae on high alert. This is the big one. Let's make it happen people.

photo by eleda

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Idea Incubator

Enchanted to work with stellar authors, especially those who don't realize how wonderful they are becoming. I feel that I work in a well-protected idea incubator, observing and guarding ideas until they hatch.

Ask me two years ago if this scenario was even conceivable, and you get the same laughter as I had contemplating the evolving work that would result in 30 trips to Russia to save thousands of lives, before it happened, while the dream was still in the incubator.

Old dream: save the former USSR from darkness, bring hope

New dream: save the current US from darkness, bring hope

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Evolving Dreams

crossposted 9 august 2008 at firedoglake

"Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue

And the dreams that you dare to dream, really do come true"

I love this photo with the combination of dark skies, calm lake, and stunningly bright rainbow -- a double rainbow for good luck.

It's tempting to get trapped in the dark and think it will be like this forever, whether politically or personally. To get beyond that it helps to reconnect with your dreams -- your childhood dreams, your young adult hopes, your current vision for the future.

To be at a point of transition, when one set of dreams has come to fruition, but the next set are waiting for the muse, is a special challenge.  I think a lot of us are experiencing this disequilibrium politically if not personally.  Our ideas about the way things are supposed to be have been shaken. Developing new ideas, new dreams, takes time and creative thought and way more patience that I can find sometimes.

Would love to hear from you pups about where you are in your evolving dreams...are you living them, considering new ones, basking in the joy of completed ones, despairing that you won't ever have them come true, where are you?

Come on in, have some coffee or tea and homemade cookies, and pull up a chair.... 

photo by Nicholas_T at Minsi Lake, Northampton County PA

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

"Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true"

Hope so. Some days I feel like I'm chasing rainbows.

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photo by Lithfin