{"id":12320,"date":"2026-04-25T17:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=12320"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:11:07","slug":"a-thought-on-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=12320","title":{"rendered":"A Thought on Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0481-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0481-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0481.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another favourite. So this winter was mainly the last two lines of the poem except for the last two weeks of March when I flew, literally, to Spain to walk my third Camino with my son. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My various Caminos have helped me pursue my challenge of \u201cno negatives.\u201d I\u2019m trying to erase negative thoughts, negative phrases and negative ideas from my life. Politics these days have made this almost impossible. However, I still hold onto the dream that this will all change and life will become a positive force again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I love this poem, I think I have to change the imagery if I am going to remain positive. Let me offer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hold fast to dreams <br>For in them lie <br>The beating wings <br>That make us fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hold fast to dreams <br><br>Never let them go They will take us to places We would never know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why I don\u2019t write poetry. I\u2019ll think about this and see if I can come up with some much needed imagery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The best I could do for flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OK, I know sparrows don\u2019t fly very far. In fact they stay here all winter and suffer like the rest of us. Their dreams maybe just finding a crumb or two to keep them going. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another favourite. So this winter was mainly the last two lines of the poem except for the last two weeks of March when I flew, literally, to Spain to walk my third Camino with my son. My various Caminos have helped me pursue my challenge of \u201cno negatives.\u201d I\u2019m trying to erase negative thoughts, negative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12325,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions\/12325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}