Flights of fancy...

The journey starts with...

   a dream dared,
   a wish aired,
   conversations shared,
   a mission crafted,
   a plan drafted,
   fears broached,
   the edge approached,

   wings unfurled...

Or at least, it did for me.

Last weekend I visited a lovely place, several lovely places in fact, but the facade on this building for Seven Stories, archive for Children's literature, got me thinking about how ideas that seem entirely fanciful to begin with can actually take shape in the world and start journeys of transformation. For me, it's something small and personal in the shape of a sabbatical (have I mentioned that it's only two weeks to go? ;) For others it's been global cultural shifts, wonderful technologies, art that takes the breath away, cures for disease, environmental projects... so many, many much bigger, more important and broadly enriching things in the world. But they all began with what probably amounted to a fanciful thought. Probably were considered fanciful. At least by some who first heard them. 

This building and what it houses is one of those ideas made real. My mad plan to jump off a secure platform into an unexplored void is another. Being prompted to think of these things anew gives me hope of success though, reminds me that dreamers have a place and that dreams do come true. Flight happens, whether literal or figurative, and it often lands us in new and delightful places. 

Isn't that amazing?!

Of course, the all-important final step, is to leap...

(Fortunately, the success of my imminent flight is not dependent on my poetry skills!)