Shape Your Dreams
In honor of Pride Month I am going to be writing about a few different topics not normally covered on this blog. For those who have not yet figured it out, I am a transgender female; welcome! You can read about my coming out story here. While I usually try to focus on motivating people to get out and achieve their dreams, I have elected… →
It was the middle of summer, and the night air in the Adirondack Mountains still managed to drop near freezing. I was huddled together with a group of other scouts at the top of a small mountain, our sleeping bags and sweatshirts clutched tight for warmth. We did not go out there on a dare or on a lark. There on a cold summer night,… →
There is a place in this world that I have never left. I have been blessed to have visited Kyoto Japan twice and yet thinking about the time I spent there always brings me right back. In Kyoto there are many shrines to take in. The red torii of Fushimi Imari which take you to another world. The magnificence of Kiyomizudera’s perch overlooking the city.… →
There is one creative force that we have not spent a lot of time on this year. It is something that every poet and artist has evoked since language began. The muse. The spark. Inspiration. While I have not addressed inspiration directly I have talked about it. I don’t believe that a great artist, writer or baker should sit about waiting for lightning to strike… →
Whether you realize it or not, every single one of us has a dream. Whether you spend your day too busy to think or just chilling with some video games, all of us have dreams. When we think of dreams we tend to think of the grandest of achievements in human history. Learning to fly, going to the moon, diving to the bottom of the… →
This year I have set out to self publish one of my books. When I first thought of the idea for the story I thought it was brilliant. After I wrestled it onto the page and read it again I found it… lacking. I spent a year doing rewrites and working on dialogue and polishing the text up. Hard work. Tedious work. Yet I thought… →
This month we are doing a deep dive into where dreams come from! The reason this site is called the DreamAnvil is so we can explore this question and in the process of doing so be encouraged to chase after our own dreams. I like the thought of the Dreamer as a sort of magical blacksmith and our dream the ingot. Last week we talked… →
We’ve all been there before. One moment you are having a nice conversation and then the person in front of you comes alive. You sit back as they take the reins of the conversation. You’ve hit upon one of their passions and there is no stopping what comes next. They sit up straighter, they speak faster, they gesture with their hands more. You can see… →
What is a dream? It is a question that many people have wondered over the years. Are they merely the things we see when we sleep? Are they the fanciful notions of a headstrong youth? Are they important or should we simply ignore them. I started the DreamAnvil because I believe that our dreams are real, and more importantly that they can be achieved. I… →
We live in a world that is built on dreams. Yet, not all of the accomplishments we take for granted today were the results of a brilliant, smashing success. Many of the items that we use every day from potato chips, to the microwave oven, to penicillin were accidents. Mistakes. Failures that were capitalized on by their inventors. It is critical that every dreamer look… →