Talking about Dreams

I want to talk to you about my dreams. I know. I know. I know how trite that sounds. But I'm going to ask that you hang in there with me and talk to you about a dream that I think will answer some dreams in many of you as well. And if I am wrong, I apologize.


I dream of a place where people can learn to provide for themselves, not by reading, but by doing. I dream of a place where people learn how to become full adults, so that, wherever they go in their lives afterword they take the knowledge that they can handle anything hits them. I have watched adults worry about their children's futures when those children struggle to find a job. I have seen the terror in parents eyes when they themselves lose their jobs. The secret nasty truth of our world is that there is not back up plan and very few of us know how to provide for ourselves and our loved ones. We were taught to go from employer to employer asking begging for bread.

The resume is simply a prettier version of the cardboard placard that reads "Will work for food".

And I dream of changing that, of building a place where people of all ages can come and learn a set of back up skills that means none of them will never need to fear adversity again, because they are complete in themselves.

I am not complete in this way yet, none of the people working with me are either. But we are trying, working together to reach a goal that our great grandparents were closer to that we are, and that their great grandparents were closer to. Independence is our birthright, self-sufficiency the great inheritance of all of us, but it does not profit the few on top. And so it is not valued.

There is a saying, that A students teach B students how to work for C students.

I want to teach all people how to work for themselves. I want to teach the world how to be free.

Because the vast majority of humans are not free, and in our captivity we have ensnared the whole ecosystem, the planet itself. And my dream is that maybe, if we can free ourselves, we can free the planet too.

That is my dream. Let me know if that speaks to you. We can always use the extra hands.