GIVING UP [SOME] DREAMS

The heat wave has broken. The humidity is still very high. Hopefully the air will dry out as the day progresses.

Jamie is constantly busy preparing for our move. If she isn't packing books she is finding stuff to give to the second hand store. Right now she is going through the canned goods and disposing of food that we canned twenty years ago and didn't get around to eating for one reason or another.

This move causes me to reassess my life. I suppose most others have to go through something like this as they age. As I don't have many more years to be on this planet, I have to give up dreams that I have held dear for many years. I have the usual dreams about this property that could never quite be fulfilled. We have a second well by the barn and I imagined building a stone pond and filling it with water. I imagined putting a windmill up and allowing the water to overflow creating a stream through the pasture which would adjoin to an existing pond.

I had many what I would call ordinary dreams about this farm, but my most powerful and persistent dream had to do with creating a healing/learning center to help people live on the Earth in a sane manner. I imagined a group of healers coming together to provide medical and counseling services to the neighboring community. I thought it would begin by providing medical services free of charge to people who were not being served by the community and grow from there. Back in the seventies I had a psychic tell me I was going to be involved in such a venture and that contributed to me hanging on to the dream. Part of the dream was having organic gardens to supply food for the group. I believed that Nature could provide the healing herbs necessary. I have written about this idea several times before. I will have more to write about it. I do think we need it. We are so painfully extended from the Earth.

This dream has been a powerful driver in my life and now in my 84^th year I must put it aside or do I?

I am looking forward to a life where I can wake up in the Morning and I don't have to go outside if I don't want to. We have lived here since 1975 and I had to tend animals everyday rain or shine, when I felt good when I was under the weather, I don't know what it would be like having a day stretch out in front of me that didn't have built in requirements, at least not from crowing, baaing and squealing creatures.

Yes! I am ready for a new phase of my life and yes I do have to give up the numerous big and little dreams about this farm, but I don't have to give up my ideas about how we can reshape how we live on planet Earth. I don't have to be physically involved in creating healing/learning centers. I can still write! I can still express my dreams for the Earth and humanity. Hey! There are many folks who are younger and very creative who have their ideas. Perhaps, something I say will contribute to their dreams.

Happy Monday!

Love and Peace, Gregg