keep dreaming

"Keep your dreams alive.
Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in 
yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication.
Remember all things are possible for those who believe."
-Gail Devers


Lately, I have been finding out the value of dreaming. Dream big. Dream little. Dream anything at all. Whatever the size they are, or however you dare, do it. Dream. Think outside of the box,  you don't always need to follow the yellow brick road.

Make them yours.

Ask yourself what you want out of life.

Is it waking up next the beach everyday? Grab a sleeping bag.
Start a new profession? Go back to school.
Sing in a band? Pick up a guitar.
vogliono imparare I'italiano? Find a tutor.
Build a dream house? Start digging.
Become an expert? Read, research, learn.

You are the master planner of your opportunities. Don't blame others, the economy, your circumstances. Don't make excuses. If you want it, go out and grab it. Or do anything and everything to grab it. Say for some awful and disappointing reason you fall short. Well hey, at least you can say that you tried. And you have a great story to tell.

No one else can do it for you.

All I know, is someday I am going to wake up old and gray, God willing, and I am going to smile at all I have done in my long life. All the wear I've put on my old bones. All the wrinkles I've etched into my tired face. But I will be satisfied, because I dreamed. And I wasn't afraid to make my dreams into tangible, beautiful, greatness.

What will you dream? Where will you go? Only you are author of that one delightful story.


Weekly phone dump:

"I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open,
and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed."
-Tony Arata

weekend off, a weekend late

Yes, we did make it back from the beach. I am just running really behind on posting pictures. Work always gets me in this eat, sleep, get out the door routine, with maybe a little bit of the Today show in there. And that's just because I'm a helpless addict. You want to know what else I'm hopelessly addicted to?

Quality family time.

It's just something about that magnetic pull to be together.

No matter how short, or how much we wish it would last forever. We can take a deep breath and give ourselves into the wonderful thing we have right now: time.

Because making wishes are full of wonder, yes. But that star, that eyelash, that candle...it never lasts. The satisfaction of laying on a bed of nails...well, it does. 

Of dreaming our biggest dreams. And seeing the world for what it really is. 

A big, wonderful place. But one that, if we're lucky, we get to share together.

Speaking of sharing. What a better holiday to help us remember to share love. 

And nothing speaks love like Grandma's cookies.

Then the normal stuff has to ground you too. You know making art and killing the bad dragons.

But, then again being grounded is pretty overrated at times. 

Hope ya'll were able to enjoy the lovely week!

so-long week, hello weekend!

Finally wrapping up a very busy week. There were days of work, work and more work. School, projects, frigid temperatures-and I know that has nothing to do with being busy. It was just a downer on our mid 60s-70s parade.

But it was all worth it, because we are getting geared up for a long weekend at the beach. And though it may not be a warm weekend, we can at least get a much needed break and change of pace. So, no complaints here. I'll keep this post short as I still need to pack before we head out.

Weekly phone dump:

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all the time, this expression is unique."
-Martha Graham

lovely days

I will keep this short, and let the pictures do the talking.

We had a wonderful weekend, filled with boy scout award ceremonies...

There were movie nights to be enjoyed...

In the middle of all the celebration, we were able to enjoy some of this warm weather...

We hope ya'll enjoyed the weekend as much as we did. All I know, is I am so grateful to soak it all up, to the very last drop. It reminds me, that we should not live to work, but instead work to live. Because that's the bread and butter of life, baby. And we live in the South now, where there's a lot of butter.