What a beautiful evening with new friends, gathering near Lake Phalen where our dreams crafted onto paper lanterns set sail at dusk.
How do you launch your dreams?
Speaking what we hope for aloud with friends listening, writing them into words may seem the obvious steps. The next step, however, is one that I often forget or resist. Letting them go. One the clarity of vision and gratitude come together, the call is to release our hopes and dreams so that we may hold them lightly in our hearts and awareness. Not too tightly, or they will surely not breathe. Not too carelessly, or they may be lost.
The experience of setting my wishes for peace and love onto the surface of the lake felt magical. The float and move and gather to join the dreams of others, bobbing and flickering brighter in concert.
Even if you aren’t near the Water Light Festival in St. Paul, how might you devise a ritual to launch your dreams? Your creativity invites you to express, hold and release your vision to unfold.
