Dreamboard: I Was Meant for the Stage
A dreamboard with milagros from Artchix Studios and lyrics from The Decemberists The fortune cookie paper at the top says, “Your curiosity may mean your success.’
Update 5/08: After making this dreamboard I started guitar lessons and sang this in front of a live audience (sans guitar.) Yeah me!
Over at Suzie’s Sacred Space, Miss Suze has once again invited people to make a Dreamboard. Using the Full Moon as a reason to focus, and images and colors as a means to communicate, people join Suzie every month to make their dreams a little more concrete and to offer them up to — well– to God/ess, The Universe, their own internal strength and Divinity…(It’s flexible…you get the idea.)
This is my first dreamboard, made on the only painfree afternoon I’ve had in a fortnight. Realistically, I should have made something envisioning health. But instead I followed The Muse deep into my six month obsession with the lyrics of a song–determined that, somehow, I Was Meant for the Stage.
I don’t know precisely what this means, but I am very curious. Is it as simple as my newfound longing to sing and play at some small open mic for my 40th birthday? Or is it more subtle — maybe something about teaching and preaching again someday? I’m not sure.
All I know is that when I watch Alanis impart wisdom to the crowds, I weep at the wonder of it. And when I speak into my microrecorder for some tiny podcast, my heart soars. And that in addition to my longing to write, and write, and write some more; another lover stands patiently in the shadows. He looks like a mic-stand and a stool, and the dimmed lights of a room full of listeners. And in my better moments, when the pain and strain of day to day life makes way for dreaming and vision, I know in that strange clear stillness, that “I was born to raise these hands with quite all around me.”
So here it is, for what it’s worth, for God and the Universe. Amen, may it be so.
What are you dreaming into reality? Write it in the comments below, or make a dreamboard and link us up to it. Watch for an interview with Suzie this Monday or next in my weekly column at BlogHer.com.
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July 18th, 2008 at 10:58 am
I understand completely your “yearning” to write! And podcasts are a wonder-filled experience for me. I just love them! My callings and giftings landed me here in blogdom and in a counseling agency…I wonder where yours will take you?
Perhaps you are meant for radio and not so much (theatrical) stage? I was just thinking that your gifts seem to be the spoken word and the written word…not necessarily visual. Just a thought…perhaps an ADORING PUBLIC yes? Like … from a blog?! Or a radio program? or…who knows?!? It’s YOUR dream! I love the idea of a dream board…I may try one!
July 18th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
A beautiful dreamboard and a powerful dream! I firmly believe that when that weeping is upon us our dreams are calling. I’ll be cheering you along on the journey!
July 18th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
It must be in the air. I love to write and write and write and recently the idea comes that I could write and direct movies. How amazing. I had asked the Universe to show me what I love, since I did not know being an at-home-mom for so long and promised I would say yes to whatever came my way. The next day I was googling something and saw,” Are you Hollywood’s next film maker?” I said, maybe I am, and submitted a short film for a contest. Yes, who knows where life will take us. There is a quote from Rumi I will share:
“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad,
that degrade you back toward disease and death.”
July 18th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Well .. this is all making sense … the seminary training (??)…. I would love to hear you in front of an audience.
July 19th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I like your dream board. I like that you shared about the dream that you can sense but not really see yet. I would like to make a dream board but for now I will just write it.
I’ve been choreographing dances in my head for years. Last week I finally started to physically choreograph a couple dances. One song is actually one that you shared with us on your You Tube song list, Strange and Beautiful by Aqualung. The other song is Dirty Harry by the Gorillaz. After I finish choreographing I plan to teach it to others and film our dance. I’m shy to bring others into this but it’s just something I have to do. It’s like an art project. I’m creating something.
July 20th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
It’s interesting, every month I know I should probably focus on health but passions get in the way don’t they? I figure passion can health us sometimes. Yours is beautiful and dynamic, I just love it and hope that you find yourself on that stage very soon. Thank you for participating!
August 4th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
It’s beautiful. Sorry I don’t have something more enlightening to say, but I wanted to say it anyway.
August 17th, 2008 at 12:41 am
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November 1st, 2008 at 5:32 pm
[...] I was meant for the stage! By the time I’m 40 I’d like to be speaking to big groups of people in an environment that feels like home. Or, I’d like to produce a set of audio essays, or have a radio segment or something like that. Right now, making either of those a reality feels out of my hands. But I can control one way of getting onto a stage – I’m learning how to play the guitar and hope to pluck out one decent song at an open mic for my 40th birthday. [...]