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What? The Queen of Dreams is saying something new here? Follow your dream. That’s not new!

But it really is. For me!

When I spoke at the Snap Out of It Conference a few months ago, I enjoyed it so much because I really showed up as ‘me’ in my spirit… that girl who I used to be at six who was carefree, who talked to and walked in nature, who loved to make people laugh and who loved to be creative. That girl is the girl who also dreamt of writing books for children.

That day, I said to the audience, “I want to know what your real dream is. You know, the one that is in the back of your heart that you don’t tell anyone! I want to hear about that one!”

As I said it to the women in the audience that day, I must have been listening, too. Ever since then, my heart has been whispering to write. To go to writer’s groups that I wanted to attend TWO YEARS ago! That I didn’t dare – until I was ready!

Way back when (I mean, waaaaaay back when – lol) I was a little girl, my cherished idol was Judy Blume. I would read and reread her books even though I was really too young for them. I have always seemed to be ahead of my age, and read, Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret when I was six! I remember going to the library asking the librarian how I could find out who Judy Blume was – Who is she? I wanted to know. Who wrote this book? I wanted to know. How can I do this too? I wanted to know.

Now, as a 40-something woman I look back at that and wonder why I wanted to know. That is so not a six-year-old thing to do, you know. I also remember saying, “I’m a writer. I’m a writer just like Judy Blume!” around the same age as I sat on the sidewalk out in front of our military housing, typhoon-resistant house when we lived in Guam. Only the breeze heard my proclamation.

Now, nearly 36 years after that moment, I’ve decided to revisit my childhood dream of writing for children. Nearly 36 years later, I would find out that I am a lot like Judy in that she had a very personal relationship with God, too. And, the book that spoke to my heart was the first book she wrote from the heart. Wow! As Samuel Taylor Coleridge says, “What comes from the heart goes to the heart.” I guess so!

Did the Earth stand still when I decided to let the dream out of my heart? Hardly. But something did happen to me. Something that is so hard to explain, and yet something really, really big for me. Does this mean I’ll quit writing for adults? Hardly. I already am working on two more books in the Queen of Dreams Quintessential Guides series.

For now, though, I want to see what will happen when I give this dream some attention.

What dream are you holding? What dream wants to leap out of you and into the world?

More tomorrow on my little journey… dreams part deux!