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Swim In Your Dream
Swim in your dream as far as you can until you find an island. Tell us the results. Sara Elkamel I have been swimming in my dream for years. Swimming in my dream looks like heading to the heat in life's game of hot and cold. Swimming in my dream l...
read moreCalling Dreams
The right to make my dreams come true, I ask, nay, I demand of life,From Georgia Douglas Johnson's "Calling Dreams" We have the right to make our dreams come true. What an amazing, hopeful, optimistic, inspiring thought. It reminds me...
read moreLast Night the Rain Spoke to Me
Last night/ the rain/ spoke to me/ slowly, saying,/ what joy/ to come falling/ out of the brisk cloud,/ to be happy again/ in a new way/ on the earth!/ That’s what it said/ as it dropped,/ smelling of iron,/ and vanished/ like a dream of the ocean/...
read moreSmall Basket of Happiness
All whom we loved.In the quiet air livedthe happiness they had given.And would still give, if only.You would slow down a minute.You would bend.From Naomi Shihab Nye's "Small Basket of Happiness" An unexpected gift of moving is boxes. Yes, that's r...
read moreAbout Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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