Miss Mads summer dreamin!

Being labeled a dreamer has a negative connotation in some circles? Implying that the person that is being labeled a dreamer is unrealistic......all "pie in the sky" and stuff....and that they should squash their dreams and get realistic......and while I believe that some people dream with no action behind it.....no feasible plan or work or effort and just expect it to materialize....most dreamers are dreamers because they have been given vision.....the ability to be a visionary......I really believe that......dreams are the vehicle that has created progress in this world......people dreaming it up, and bringing something into existence.....and I spent many years feeling like my dreams were not heard or understood, and I lacked the ability then to believe so deeply in myself, that the voices of the naysayers were drowned out.....I was way too subject to doubt creeping in, believing their language or implications about my dreams, and not listening to my own voice.....and now that lifelong affliction is over.....:) No such trouble anymore, believing in myself, and the dreams I have placed in my life.....and my daughter is the same as I am.....we share a laundry list of kinship......SO many things that tie us, and make us close......being very similar creatures, and I make her feel understood and seen.....she told me that last night....that she feels lots of people in her life don't listen to her, or take her seriously.....even some of her favorites........but she feels I do....And I revel in the ways we get each other.....being drawn to the same things....the same spaces.....the same delights.....the same struggles....and being given the opportunity to mother her, and offer her the shift in some of the things I struggled with, seems like a great gift.....she wrote this adorable story about waking up as a hamster....and has a vision to developing it further and have it published.....and I plan on helping her do that:) Amazon will allow you to self publish, and I have my book in the works too, so it speaks to a summer odyssey to figure it all out......and ironically I had done a lesson for my observation this year at school.....and it was a process writing project....an opinion writing project.....and I showed the kids a TED Talk in the beginning of the lesson to catch their attention, and it was a young girl talking about just that.....wanting to be published as a little girl, and her parents fostering her desire and helping her do that, instead of squashing her dream...and she was arguing the point that grown ups need to listen to kids more....and make them feel heard.....and so it felt like foreshadowing as I had the conversation with my daughter last night as we waited for her brother.....and I told her we will make a plan to figure that out.....and to not let anybody tell her she can't do anything....she can do anything she puts her mind to......she can have, be, and do anything she wishes.....being a dreamer and feeling it so deeply is not easy in this world sometimes....but as my belief has shifted in this chapter and I have put energy into my dreams.....I am watching myself making them come true:) One by one.....standing in a room of realized dreams....and so as long as I remain focused on my goals and dreams and put the energy behind them, they will come to life:) And it is wildly important to surround yourselves with people that speak life into your dreams.....and let the voice of the naysayers get drowned out.....and I told Mads just that....I will nourish and believe in every dream she has.....she is a dreamer that has the will, and the talent and drive to have her dreams see the light of day......:) And I am so honored to be front row to it all:) Happy Friday:)