Dream Silhouettes

A poem by  my Dad.  

Happy Father's Day.

Love you. 

Dream Silhouettes

when dreams come into play
and dance round the shadows
of yesterday’s nitemares,
all those old fears
now laying buried in the rubble
about out of luck and
already into next weeks trouble
dance ever merrily
sweet dreams of tomorrow
what morals uncovered
from ash ‘neath the rubble

what fires re-kindled

when once thought

dreams dwindled

they’ve re-ignited

and fleshed out the form

opposed to the norm

the crescent moon smiling

and fueled by the serpents

of tides ever wilding

and once

just a thought

i thought long forgotten

spoiled and mildewed

decayed and gone rotten

a lost thought

distraught

now bought a new ticket

not merely an idle idea

gone wicked

oh no,

bare assumptions

now dare to come forward

the movements improvements

now justly rewarded

 

staggered,

as dreams dance silhouettes

the cargo’s been lost

as well as the debt

no payment on pavement

no concrete nor stone

instead just a dream,

full grown and well flown

more banner headlines

more chaos and riots

more slogans on flags

if the banner fits

fly it

soar,

aviate,

go high, then go higher

the truth will now torture

the tongue of the liar

and dream now the dance

enhanced and enthralling

the embers ablaze

to the universe calling

what parts must be played

become ever clear

there was not an instance

when no one was near

the mirror imagines

the image you see

but the dream

gives it credence,

far-flung-fantasy

and back to the dream

to the stage

to the play

a dream with in grasp

gone its own way

it was no more

than a moment in time

a richness so subtle,

oblique and sublime

a moment in time

so close,

within reach

gone as a cloud

like a figure of speech

gone as the night time

blends into dawn

when the thinking man

saps the strength out of brawn

now all that remains

is a puddle of dreams

however bemuddled

however it seems

transfixed now,

translucent

but the stage lights

now dim

be ever thankful

you know how to swim.

-RAK-

Heart in Wilderness

In this land of hidden waterfall wilderness, we walk

enjoying the sights and sounds of this scenery

knowing to keep our eyes open,

to expect the unexpected

discovering a heart carved into the landscape

of mountain waterfall wildnerness,

speaking to us from beyond.

For more hearts found in the world,

visit Clytie's Random Hearts for

my favorite Thursday activity:

hopping around to other blogs

featuring HEARTS. 

You'll be sure to smile, LOTS.

Freedom Quotes

"What you call freedom is still nothing
but choosing how to steer straight into the heart
of what chooses you. "

Kate Gleason

"...because of our faith in Him, we dare to have the boldness (courage and confidence) of free access (an unreserved approach to God with freedom and without fear)."

Ephesians 3:12, Amplified (AMP) 

"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,

there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom)."
2 Corinthians 3:17, (AMP)

 "Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did,
God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face!

They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We're free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives..."

2 Corinthians 3:16-18, The Message (MSG)

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

 ~ Emma Lazarus

"Reminding one another of the dream

that each of us aspires to

may be enough for us

to set each other free."

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery,

author of The Little Prince

Hiding a Letterbox

Previously, I posted about letterboxing and how to get started. 
This post is about a letterbox that we hid.

Stamps can be expensive, but we found this whole package of stamps at a local craft store and used a 1/2 price coupon to purchase it.  The price came out to be $5.

We made our own booklets using cardboard for the front and back covers and blank paper for the pages.  The kids stamped some designs onto the covers, and chose pictures for collage.

"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia." 

~Charles A. Lindbergh

The tupperware container is the box we use to put everything in, and the felt and stapler are for creating a little pouch to put the box's stamp in.

We secured the cardboard cover and blank pages together with string.  We put the booklet, the stamp (in its pouch), and a printed page about letterboxing into the container.  We also wrote "congratulations, you found a letterbox!" on an index card and secured this to the inside of the lid.  Then we put the letterbox into a large ziploc bag.

We selected a location to hide our letterbox and went for a walk there with friends.  The perfect rock to hide it under was discovered, and the letterbox was placed.

Some large rocks were placed in front of it to camoflauge the box even better.

This is the perfect rock for a letterbox!

The notes I scribbled down while we were walking included clues that my kids pointed out along the way, and guiding points for those who'd seek to find the box we hid.

We've also created a couple "HitchHiker"/"Traveler" stamps.  So far we've hid one in a letterbox we found locally.  Hitchhiker stamps are picked up by whoever finds them next, and travel from box to box by those who discover them.  It is fun to track their travels on the website, which is updated with their new location by those who find and replace them elsewhere.

Another letterbox we created but have not yet placed has this quote on the cover:

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." 

~Rachel Carson

Here is another site that is all about letterboxing, and is set up in a fun, visual way: AtlasQuest.

We hope we've inspired you to enjoy the adventures of letterboxing!