In Dreams and In Love

When the nights seem long, and the days feel like they go quickly I am often reminded about dreams. 

Chances are it is because there is more darkness in this part of the world right now. 

Yet when the night is upon me, I also tend to bring in more things to add to ways I can become warmer in my comfy chair. 

It is also when I roam through my stacks of books and poems to be still. 

That is what the long winter nights have reminded me to do. 

There is a line from a poem that includes this line, and it became a way to look at things deeper: 

                In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. 

Janos Arany was a Hungarian poet who wrote this many years ago. 

His writings in this piece stayed with me and have become two more ways of thinking. 

Dreams can happen during times of rest.

Dreams can happen during times of rest and when my mind is relaxing. 

They are given to me as ways to go with the rhythm of where I am now and where I’ve been. 

Dreaming big could be creating a list of life goals or visions of what the next 3 months will look like. 

Having a purpose for daily meditation. 

Intent to create good outcomes with others in a community. 

Starting again with renewed energy while building physical strength.

I spoke to someone about being in both places at once as it almost seemed impossible to do. 

The conversation flowed.

Then the conversation flowed in a natural way and time stood still. 

Where I’ve been and things I’ve experienced actually bring more to what can come. 

What if the unknown of a dream is where the impossibilities come into being? 

Dreams actually happen to give our minds time for openness and grand views. 

Then the thought came about when dreams happen at a time of rest. 

These could be called daydreams. 

When the combination of being in dreams and in love with new ideas and opportunities take on the impossibilities. 

This has become the warmth and energy that I wondered about as days are long.

Do I dare consider daydreams as a way to look for the next steps? 

Let’s think about this as love steps into the realm. 

This one piece of life has been here before. 

Like a leaf found even when it feels past time for it to be seen. 

This leaf was found in the middle of a walkabout one afternoon when I was also daydreaming about the day to come. 

This is the stuff in dreams and in love.

This is the stuff in dreams and in love, my friends, as leaves like this were ones that our son helped to rake up each year. 

You know of course, the moment that comes next is the best part of the realm. 

It is to jump into the pile of leaves with smiles and laughs that bounced across the yard. 

The day the single leaf was found I had actually been reminded of that very laugh as it boomed in our world. 

What a ride! 

What if it’s like being on a roller coaster ride. When the wheels have allowed the cars to go up and over loops. Then the brakes have to stop the ride.

While I wonder about the ride with booming laughter stopping, I also wander into other thoughts. 

What if you don’t want the ride to stop and yet perhaps there is another meaning.

Pause with what you may not have wanted to stop, yet here you are with me.  

It could be the ride stops to do this.

Times when you let others go on the ride with you so they can find a time for dreams and love with you. 

It is like the light and shadows that come when other leaves are seen above. 

Light somehow always comes back to me as I look up to find ways to keep impossibilities rolling in dreams and in love. 

Find your comfy chair and let’s come through the long nights with dreams and love, my friends.