Dreams

I don't keep a "regular" hand-written journal and I wanted to make sure I wrote this down somewhere.

I saw a dream take place right in front of me last night. It almost moved me to tears but I was cheering inside too much to cry. This was particularly exciting for me as most of the dreams I had as a kid have already been exceeded or are well out of reach (too late for a 35 year old to play his rookie year in the NFL probably :)

Eddie was asking me all of these technical questions about making CDs ... "how many can you burn at one time, how much does it cost, can we do it ourselves or do we have to go to somewhere else..." After answering all of his technical questions, I asked him why he was asking and he said he wanted to "make a CD with 14 songs on it". I congratulated him on his ambition and he asked me if he would have to record it "brand new each time I want to make a new CD" to which I of course said, "no, once you record it the first time you can make as many copies as you want, and usually studios will only press a minimum of 500-1000 or if we do it ourselves we can make as many as we want". And there it was - this smile... pure, innocent, and inspired. He was overjoyed with the possibility of creating something that was all his and from his heart. He immediately went downstairs and got a pencil and paper and started writing - wow, now my eyes are... I probably just need some sleep. When I saw him smile I connected to this old part of me that felt that same thing when I was around his age - something I haven't felt in a long time - it was just so instant, joyful and innocent, childlike and .... real. Wow - what a moment.