I Also Have a Dream!!!!

Hello all:

I have always liked my name for a couple of reasons. For one it is an easy one to remember. It has a ring to it. And it shares two key initials with a spiritual giant, Martin Luther King.

Not only have I shared his vision. I would like to flesh it out a little more now, in the context of THIS time of times, THIS era which seems so spiritually & morally bereft & completely bankrupt.

This is MY dream; the dream of a nurse:

I have a dream that EVERY CHILD BORN TO THIS EARTH IS A WANTED CHILD.

That every child who comes to this earth has been PLANNED for, ANTICIPATED WITH GREAT JOY, & that BOTH parents are deeply in love & committed to each other.

I have a dream that children of every tribe, & every race, who live here now can live in peace & freedom.

That NO child goes to bed hungry. Not just for food, of course not just that. But NO child knows the awful heart hunger; of being abandoned because the pursuit of material possessions has become more important than the quest & desire to create beautiful, happy memories for these children.

I have a dream that parents will be living examples to their children of how to navigate the complexities of life, in a spirit of adventure & invincibility.

I have a dream that IT IS NEVER TOO LATE to have a HAPPY childhood.

That the Pursuit of HAPPINESS will be the focus of their lives, & the lives of their families.

That in that quest, the discovery is made, that TRUE happiness actually comes from thinking about & making others happy. Planning happy surprises, knowing the language of a child's heart.

I have a dream that using WAR as a solution to anything fades rapidly in the mists of time, revealing that we were all simply awakening from a bad dream, & awakening in the beautiful morning light to new & exciting possibilities, looking forward to those moments every day.

That that delicious sense of anticipation a child feels on Christmas morning can be one felt within each heart every morning. Not just one day of the year.

I have a dream that endless conflicts & power struggles over borders THAT ARE NOT THERE in reality AT ALL, be eradicated, & that our global citizenry will come to SEE this, through the amazing SEEING EYEs of our sophisticated technology.

I have a dream that the love of power reverses polarity worldwide to the power of love.

I have a dream of every child being read to in a loving parent's lap. That a love of literacy is kindled in the heart of every child, both young & old.

That a love of PEACE grows steadily with each colder day in the northern hemisphere, & warms with the spring in the southern.

I have a dream of home-made pleasures, love of crafts & the joy of making things at home enriches every home. Making a poem, a song, a cake, a loaf of bread. That the tapestries of memories we weave together, flow in an extraordinary cascade of rainbows & colors everywhere, shining away the dark shadows , the shadow stalkers, the greys who have dominated for so long the global body politic.

I have a dream of delicious smelling foods perfuming the air of homes & villages & communities where every one is known by their NAME & not as a number.

Of spontaneous dancing, joyful chirping, endless love.

I have a dream of living in peace & harmony with the soulmate of my dreams.

Somewhere, some day, some how.

I have a dream of skating, skating, skating into the dawn of this millennial peace, moving, jumping & soaring with the true joy of a victory banner held high. Always landing, with grace, spinning & whirling, twirling & laughing.

I have a dream that the motto on our New Hampshire auto plates READS:

Live free & fly!

Yes, I ALSO have a dream!