It feels like my dreams for my entire lifetime are stacked inside me, all just waiting to be plucked up and nurtured into being.

At times this is incredibly confusing. Because what do you mean I want to create a food forest and thriving garden with a free farm stand to feed my community, and I want to travel the world for many months at a time?

These things don't co-exist at the same point in my life (at least not without a lot of support that I don't have yet), but they do live within me and will be my reality.

But if I'm being even a teensy bit more honest, the deepest most tender dream I feel in my heart right now is to live in such a way that makes people think:

• wow, she doesn't follow any rules
• that woman knows herself
• reality really doesn't apply in her world, does it?

I want half the people who look at me to think I'm cringe and the other half to be inspired.

I want to live in such a way that says I've looked around at the world, I didn't love what I saw or felt or experienced when I played by those rules, and I decided to do whatever the f*ck I wanted.

What sits on top of that dream are all the visible manifestations:

the food forest.
the long stretches of travel.
the summers spent mostly offline.
the local matriarchal webs that care for one another outside the isolation of the nuclear family.
work that reaches people whether they can afford it or not.

They're the surface "symptom" of the deeper desire.

Truly, I want to live so freely inside of myself that just by being me and following what feeds me, I make everyone else around me a little more free, too.

Maybe at first that just means you feel free enough to admit you want or that you have needs, or yes, even a dream, too.

Or to acknowledge your body has something to say and maybe you're brave enough to listen.

Or for the emotions to surface, like fear, and for the first time you acknowledge you're strong enough to feel them and let them move.

Or to take a bigger leap into something everyone else in your life has warned you against.

More and more, I think the future belongs to the people willing to imagine differently together.

The ones willing to take time and space to dream outside of “reality," or what has been deemed possible or “realistic”.

The ones remembering we are never just dreaming for ourselves.

The Dreaming Field opens soon…for us.

Ash