Article Highlights:

  • Hold your dream like a puppy
  • Be a dream magnet
  • Awakened dreaming

day dreamerDear Day Dreamer,

I just spoke with a friend who related that in her 4th grade class recently she and her co-teacher read the Langston Hughes poem Hold Fast to Dreams.

Hold fast to dreams/ For if dreams die/ Life is a broken-winged bird/ That cannot Fly/ Hold fast to dreams/ For when dreams go/ Life is a barren field/ Frozen with snow.

After reading the poem they had discussion about having a dream, and the children wrote poems about it. During the discussion, the other teacher asked the children what they thought it meant to hold fast to their dream.

My friend shared a few of the answers given. They were wonderful, of course. This led me to prompt my friends with younger children to ask their children the same question. Their answers contain so much wisdom for us grownups. Here they are for your own reflection and enjoyment.

What does it mean to hold fast to your dream?

  • Spend time really imagining it.
  • Hold on to it like a puppy.
  • Feel the electricity of it.
  • Enjoy your dream, don’t worry about it.
  • Take your dream seriously, ‘cuz it matters to you.
  • Learn what is real about your dream.
  • Speak your dream out loud because words make dreams real.
  • Pin your dream up in your head and look at it a lot.
  • Don’t be afraid you won’t get it, because you will.
  • Give your dream a big hug.
  • If your dream wants you to work for it don’t be too afraid to.
  • Don’t forget you dreamed it.
  • Be like a magnet that sucks dreams to it.
  • Dream it real.

Young children are certainly our experts on making daydreams a daily reality. It’s a good moment in time for us to reflect on how children do this so much more simply and effectively than we do.

The process of creating the world we want is actually the high Art of Dreaming – what I call Awakened Dreaming – and your inner kid is chomping to get on with it! Dream it real, fellow dreamer, dream it real.

See you in the DreamTime, dear Awakened Dreamer.

Warmest hugs,
~Mayet

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