Last year I started another blog, yet after some time I began to feel uncomfortable with the name. So I spent several weeks earlier this year turning over potential names in my mind, sometimes as I was sitting in seminars or meetings, sometimes walking home or lying awake at night. Nothing seemed to fit. A title, I thought, should encapsulate everything one wants to say, and enable others to understand who one is and what one believes. How can three or four words do this?
For lack of a title I did not create a blog. Or so it seemed. But there was a deeper issue. And that was the essence of the blog itself. Why create a blog? What should one write about? For all of my life I have had a thousand different dreams - but which is most important? Which is the essence of me? Is it writing, which I love? Is it teaching, which I'm passionate about? Is it expressing myself creatively and artistically, which I sometimes feel I corner the market on, and other times fear I have nothing to say about? Do i want to inspire, create or teach? Do I want to share the journey I've had of growing in gratitude, the benefits I get from dreams, the beauty of nature? Uncertain of the essence of the blog, which seemed to reflect the essence of me, I did nothing.
This week somehow I came to a realisation. The title "Finding Dreams" came to me. I do not know what my dreams are exactly. I am not the only one for whom this is true. So this is what I will write about - the journey of moving towards, of finding, the dreams that I know that I have, or that I know await me, the journey of being where I am at now, and being present in that space, even as the dreams are discovered and walked into.
The title "Finding Dreams" was gone. But "Dreams, Gratitude and Sunlight" was not, and this was - of course - the obvious choice!
To be continued....
