Once upon a time I spun in front of my parents’ record player, singing and dancing to a song called “Tina the Ballerina.”
I closed the door to my bedroom and sat at my desk with a Brother typewriter and filled pages with stories.
I majored in philosophy and wanted to help people find beauty and happiness and meaning through my words.
Watching my children dress up, I marvel at their limitless dreams.
They want to be firemen and doctors for people and doctors for animals and fairies and princesses and painters and dancers and train drivers.
When do we lose that ability to play dress up and let our fantasies and dreams guide our actions and our hopes and our plans?
Maybe it’s time to recapture our capacity to dream big dreams, to dream beautiful dreams, even when they seem too big and too beautiful to come true.
“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”
John Lennon, lyrics to “Imagine”
xo
Angela
Tonight at dinner, my four-year-old daughter asked her brother, my husband and me what we wanted to be when we grow up. Instead of telling her I was already a grown-up, I thought about what dreams I have left to fulfill and told her when I grow up, I want to be a writer.
Beautiful post!
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How wonderful that you answered her question that way! We definitely always have time to change and dream our entire lives.
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I LOVE THIS…and not in the “YAY ANGELA YOU wrote *another* great post” kind of way. In a “you really are my kindred spirit, my soul sister, my blogging twin” kind of way.
The quote, the picture, the DREAMS for yourself and your kiddos is as much a part of you as your editing skills, your love of high heels and that fantastic head of hair of yours.
This was a brilliant way to tell all of us, “THERE IS ALWAYS TIME TO DREAM”. Thank you for the reminder and I’d be truly honored if you were part of mine.
xoxox
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If you weren’t on my “favorite people” list before (which you so were, of course!) you just cemented your place with “gorgeous head of hair!” xo
I think part of what drew us together is our inability to see even the possibility that there’s not time to dream; we will both dream, dream, dream until they come true in some way or another
angela recently posted..Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight
Love it. I think this is a big part of why I am writing children’s poems/stories.
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There’s something so amazing about the imaginations of children, and I can see the allure to tapping into that and writing to make them dream and smile even more.
angela recently posted..Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight
I think dreaming is a powerful motivator.
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Let’s hope so! Because they’re floating around in my head right now
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