Living King's Dreams
Despite Characters who Destroy Them
Life could be a dream. Dreams certainly lead us through life, whether we seek to escape nightmares or create transcendent experiences where we fly through rainbows, dance on stars, and sing with angels.
What are we dreaming that should become REALITY? If the core of our dreams is love, peace, and responsibility for a better world, we should be sharing them.
Today (in the USA) we celebrate the birthday of a man who, in his Finest Hour, shared a dream for his little children that, until recently was still unfolding. In the last several years, sadly, King’s dreams for education, jobs, housing, and political agency (voting rights) have stagnated. In the last few months, it seems that many elected officials are actively demolishing long-held social constructs for personal well being, access to health care, education that supports technical skills and expanding cognition, stable living conditions, and rights to express opinions and challenge authority.
NONETHELESS
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s voice still rings for me. It asks each of us to speak your dream so clearly that others recognize their place in your Dream’s Truth.
It calls for us to Sing out the Dream, so that 100 years from now, your great-great-great grandchildren will hear it wherever they are waiting to be born, and hum it to the rhythm of their mama's heartbeats.
It invites us to Dance with your Dream, so that someone who speaks, sings, or moves differently can teach it to everyone they meet without a shared language.
It insists that we keep Dreaming wherever we stand “at times of challenge and controversy.”
Dream
Stars into Being
Peace into Breathing
Love into Living
Life into Seeing
Every DREAM
COMING
TRUE.
DonnaMarie FeketeEven if you never have a holiday in your name, your dream should LIVE beyond you.
If we hear it, if we SEE it, we can share it.
