Shape Your Dreams
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… →
Have you ever heard the advice to follow your passion and you will never work a day in your life? Well, I disagree with the second half of that sentence entirely, but I agree that when we are searching for our dreams, the next goal in life, or just a new hobby, we should follow our passion. You know the thing wakes you up in… →
I am not feeling very creative today. The cursor blinks at me and I struggle to find words. With the financial pressure of the stay at home orders and the crazy way our world seems to be responding, it all just makes me shut down. I have talked before of how this current environment makes me want to retreat. To turn inwards into my shell… →
The flame dances and twirls. Beautiful in its grace and power, it flows through the psyche melding ideas and desires together. The first instinct is to reach out and caress the flame, but its touch might burn. It might be too much for you, or too hard to accomplish. It seems impossible. Still, it dances, and it calls. Daring the dreamer to chase after it.… →
It starts as something small, insignificant. It billows and sways on the breeze, tumbling towards its destination. Its touch smolders and burns, but it will not stay in one place for very long. It has a place where it belongs, somewhere out there in that great wide world, a place where it can be free. When it finally lands, when it finally finds a home… →
It’s February and by now you are probably realizing that dreams are hard. It has been said that most of the goals set on New Year’s will be abandoned in six weeks. We get caught up in the moment and set ambitious goals, and by the end of January well, we wonder why we are doing this? Why do we set goals and chase dreams?… →
What moves you? What makes you get up and take action? Do you know what it is inside of you that makes you tick? Our passions are the doorways to our dreams, finding one will inevitably lead you towards the other. Like a giant puzzle or a woven bracelet, our dreams and our passions go hand in hand. The Dream Anvil was started from a… →
There has been a slight change in our programming schedule for the month. Have no fear, the Storytime post that was to be today has been delayed only for a short time and will appear on November 3rd. Instead, to help prepare those of you who are about to embark on NaNoWriMo, I will be posting a series of blogs I have previously published about… →
You may have noticed by now the three components of our dreams seem to have a symbiotic relationship with one another. Our ideas cannot be brought to fruition without our effort and our effort is baseless without a solid idea. Both of these, the idea and the effort, are driven by our passions. Just as our ideas come from within us, our passion is the… →
We all know that one person. He’s almost finished writing that screenplay, ten years later. She’s got all those great ideas for a new business, until next week when a new one catches her eye. Our ideas are great, they can be downright amazing at times, but they won’t go anywhere unless the dreamer is willing to put in a bit of elbow grease. (That… →