Follow Your Dreams

Apparently, I love projects. Not just projects but creative ones. Organizing my life in writing helps me see how many things I enjoy doing, and they don't get completed in the order they were started and that's ok. It means I am listening to my inner needs and allowing life to flow rather than forcing it into a shape that looks normal to others.

While I have a main book to read, I actually read quite a few others along with it. It's the same with other aspects of life as well. I am in the middle of sewing projects, but I stopped today to make a housewarming gift for a dear friend who is moving into a new house.

The gift is a dreamcatcher. I had planned on making one for myself for the spring season when I could find fresh plants and flowers to dry and weave into it, but I made an empty one for her to celebrate her own spring season of renewal and fresh starts. It feels very appropriate to help symbolically catch her dreams, not in the state of sleep, but in her daydreams. The hope for the future; the rise from the dormant stage of life.

One of the other books I am reading is Herbs and Crystals DIY, by Ally Sands, so I used the instructions it gave to make the dreamcatcher. The beauty in each of the bits of wisdom I use, whether from this book or another source, is that my version is just a little different, as it should be. I use ideas and help from my fellow traveler, but make it my own version. In this way, the connected energy disperses to each of us uniquely. This is also why I made the dreamcatcher without any embellishments, so it could be changed to suit my friend.