Dare To Dream

In the book "Five People You Meet in Heaven," author Mitch Albom describes each person's heaven as their favorite place on earth.  (This book is a wonderful and quick read, and will quickly make you realize how important each of are to the tapestry of life.)  If this is true, I know my heaven will be our little lake community in Pine Lake Park.  Our bungalow is truly modest - 2 bedrooms, a bath and a galley kitchen that comprise less than the square footage of the first floor of our house in New Jersey -- but it has all I need.  Our small lake is, to me, water of well-being, peace and healing.  Each day as I swim in it, I feel baptized and blessed.  The sound of the bull frogs and crickets each night are the lullaby of the universe.  I am so lucky to be here!

I have basically moved up here for the summer -- and it is so conducive to painting, meditating, contemplating, and stillness.  Here is a piece I just finished, called "Dare to Dream." 

 

Scrapping the Music's prompt this time around was the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," which is near and dear to my heart.   I chose the lyric "dare to dream," from the phrase "and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true."  This canvas includes pieces of fabric I designed for Robert Kaufman, collage and stamped paper I made at CREATE, and the zentangle Mi-Mi 80 from the Diva's 80th challenge. For years I've dreamed about spending the entire summer at Pine Lake -- and here I am!

I'm linking up at Paint Party Friday, Art Journal Everyday and Artists in Blogland too.  And here is one of my favorite poems about dreams, by Langston Hughes:

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.

Dream on!

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