Shape Your Dreams
This month I will be swamped with projects so I will not be able to dedicate as much time to the site as I would like. So we will be revisiting some of the best posts from Dream Anvil’s of the past! This post originally appeared on the Dream Anvil back in February of 2012. Sometime last week my sister introduced me to The Piano… →
The word rest conjures up for me, images of hammocks swaying with the breeze. Or maybe just floating down a lazy river. Taking a deep, deep breath of ocean air and letting it out slowly, with a long hisssssss. Or perhaps a cold rainy day, snuggled under my blankets with a good book and the pitter patter of rain on the window. Rest is a… →
Have you ever felt like a zombie? A brainless, direction less, human shaped being with no desire to do anything? Something flashy or noisy attracts your attention but it quickly passes and you return to your ambling. At times it seems like our brains decide that they too need a break and go to some magical place far from our worn out bodies. Just as… →
I plop down on my couch and look with disbelief at the calendar. It’s Thursday. The hot summer air means I am already sweating like a pig. The work week seems to have flown by, with events and projects. I am hot and tired. Not a good combination for writing or putting together a blog post. I don’t know about you but when I am… →
I stare at the screen my fingers hovering over the keys. It’s happening again. The cursor blips at me in a steady rhythm. Blip. Blip. Blip. Nothing. I have nothing to write. Nothing to say. Blip. Blip. Blip. Is this it? The end of my career? The end of my favorite hobby? Blip. Blip. Blip. I close the lip and walk away. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe.… →
The tenacious genius, the venerable artist and the multifaceted team all have one thing on common. They would be inconsequential without perseverance. You can have any amount of skill, traits or characteristics to help you achieve your dream, but without perseverance it is all for naught. The dream will forever remain just a dream if you take no action to give it life. This is… →
I always imagined the dreamer alone in her room. The stars and moon her only companions. With a singular resolve and tenacity she brings forth her dream like some sort of Herculean epic. I admit, it is a bit romantic, the singular artist striving for perfection. Yet every artist and every dreamer will eventually reach a point in which going it alone is no longer… →
The Sistine Chapel is a favorite topic of mine. The ceiling is a masterwork of art, something that almost every person has at least a passing familiarity with and respect for. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is what most of us think of, but the walls of this ancient chapel are also covered in works from a myriad of Renaissance artists, each one a… →
She sits alone in her workshop. The other women thought she was mad, crazy, even sometimes strange. From an early age she had been obsessed with math, with science. These were not areas that women belonged in the 1900’s, Lise Meitner did not care. She pursued her passion with a tenacity and brilliance rarely seen, even among her male counterparts. She would earn her doctorate… →
With the long humdrum’s of February behind us we can once again look towards the future. Spring is in the air, the ground is coming alive with the first yearnings of spring. There on the horizon, just beyond what we can expect, lay our dreams. To reach them we will need to strive harder, work longer, and will ourselves further than we ever imagined we… →