A Firm Foundation

If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau Personally, I love the idea that you can build castles in the air. You just need to put a firm foundation underneath them.  Castles in the air; it's just another term for a dream.  Dreams don't come with a firm foundation. Dreams come with a lot of things, but they don't come with a foundation.  If they did, they'd be goals that you achieved. Dreams, or castles in the air, are a chance for your mind to soar freely, flitting from here to there over various ideas, some getting bigger and some getting smaller, until finally they crystalize  into into a goal. When you have the goal and begin to work toward it, that is when you build a firm foundation under your castle in the air.

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A Different Kind of Perspective – Challenge Day 24

A Different Kind of Perspective Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? - Henry David Thoreau I'm a big fan of perspective.  When you change your perspective, you can change so many things.  But usually when we think about perspective, we're only thinking about us and how we're seeing something. Today I'm talking about a different kind of perspective, and honestly, it's a biggie in my mind. I think a lot of people read To Kill A Mockingbird while they were in school, and they're all familiar with the idea of walking in another person's shoes. But how many of us actually do it.  I know it's something I struggle with on many occasions.  Especially when I'm fighting for something I believe in. I actually tried this just the other day when engaging in a political discussion with someone who had diametrically opposing views from me regarding a certain leader of a certain free world.  We were just chit chatting at first, and it drifted toward the political, and I tried very hard to see things from her view.  It was hard, and while it didn't change my political…

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