mindset shift: Every human being I’ve met is a disaster and also a miracle. – James Baldwin

Dreams. Not the ones you have when you fall asleep-- but dreams. What are yours? How many possible dreams do you have? Have you stopped dreaming? Do you dream big? What is dreams were not goals. Now what? Can you dream a really big dream for your life right now? Go ahead! I dare you! Dream a big dream!

Dreaming reveals what inspires you in life. It may reveal what is lacking in your life. What brings meaning to your life-- in the here and now? Notice how this shifts. Are there some values you used to find meaningful that you now seem to bang your head against? Why do you think that is? Do you want to still live by that value?

I recently read: Hope is painful and cynicism is lazy. Wow... and yet there are SOOOOO many cynics out there. I find the battle is to catch myself in judgey kinds of thought that tend to roll away out of control like I'm that woman in the barrel going over Niagara Falls before I gain footing in awareness. Such energy needed, such fire to stay aware of and learn about how my own cynicism quickly grows roots. Not even for the neighbor as an act of neighborly goodness but for me! Cynicism is painful. Cynicism bites and grows like a tumour. It eats aware at my inner wonder like rust eating iron. It effects my dreaming. It derails me.

So, stand in the sunshine. I so love to see the people standing in the sunshine. Sometimes we just have to be reminded that the sunshine is there. To stop all the gears moving around and around, to stand still. Breathe and imagine floating up until you break through the thick, heavy, tight cloud cover that surrounds you and rise up above into the brilliant blue sky. Float above it all feel the warm sun on your face-- see blueness around. Invite some others to come sit onto of the clouds with you-- see their smiling faces, hear their sweet laughter, feel your connections. Let go of needless worries, imagined fears, ridiculous resentment. Realize the possibilities already contained in the present moment as you return to reclaim your sense of humanity and return to yourself perhaps finding that you are already where you need to be.

How illuminating!