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... was from my 7th grade teacher, Mr. Olsen, after he caught me handing off a note to my friend Nikki. He told me to go wait for him outside. Not in the hall where the nuns made you stand, so everyone could cast a shaming look – tsk, tsk – but outside, in the fresh...
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon an announcement for an Arts in Nature Festival. I had other projects planned, yet I resonated strongly with the festival’s focus. I imagined myself creating a massive nest, and then inviting participants to write their Dream on a piece...
Birthing a Dream isn't like going to an ATM machine. It's not like on Amazon.com: To get your Dream by Tuesday, order in the next 5 hours and 28 minutes (and click Overnight shipping). IF it was that easy, it wouldn't be much of a Dream, would it? That's why you...
It's frustrating. Disheartening. Why can't I just breakthrough to another level? Why can't I manifest my Dream? Believe me, I've been there. I've noticed three things when I'm caught in a loop of one step forward, two steps back. You may be familiar with the work of...
The reason more people don't go for their Dream is they lack either clarity or courage. To change our course, we often have to give up one thing – safety, predictability, the known – for the big Unknown, buoyed only by our innocent hope for something better. Often...
In my last post I showed an adorable photo of this baby bird, to illustrate how vulnerable I felt in launching Dream Hatching. Adorable, isn't she? The only problem is, it's bullshit. THIS is what a newly hatched bird looks like: Not so adorable. And yet, a Dream...
Tap. Tap. Tap-tap. Inside the Robin egg, an almost-bird uses its "egg-tooth" to chip away at the shell from the inside out. Gradually it has outgrown the safe haven of the egg. The space that once felt expansive, now feels cramped. The tiny hatchling can’t possibly...