i dare you ~ Building Sanctuary - Construction of our new home

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Dare Your Dream...

This is a little aside post - on the topic of

having COURAGE & daring DREAMS...

Building a house was a desire / dream for James and I for many many many years... The fact that we are now in the process of achieving this is due to many factors (many little and big "pushes"). A huge part of our journey was the action of stepping out or "opening the door" to this path... it was a very scary step to move forward and actually DARE our DREAM (complete with a sea-change).

Dream (noun)

a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal

he realized his childhood dream

[as adj. ] they built their dream home

ambition, aspiration, hope; goal, aim, objective, grail,

intention, intent, target; desire, wish, yearning

Courage (noun)

bravery, courageousness, pluck, pluckiness, valour,
fearlessness, intrepidity, nerve, daring, audacity, boldness,

grit, true grit, hardihood, heroism, gallantry; informal guts,

spunk, moxie, cojones, balls

So I have been thinking about this a fair bit lately... There are many other dreams I have swirling around in my head. Artistic dreams, personal hopes and family desires... Dreams/Hopes/Desires that I have not even fully acknowledged or written down, let alone shared with others... So many things hold me back from expressing or pursuing them. Its too much to go into much more here yet, but thought to simply share these thoughts briefly and see what response I get...

To explain a tiny bit further - I am currently doing an online course by artist Kelly Rae Roberts that it is very challenging to me personally. Its creating a whirlwind of sorts in my mind about my other dreams that I haven't dared to step out or explore further... I am thinking about my fears and their effect on my stepping out... hmmm what if?

Below is a quick video of author kelly corrigan (who wrote The Middle Place) that Kelly Rae shared in her post today. It's called I dare you.