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Friday, October 21, 2005 Working Towards a Dream

Working Towards a Dream

I’m down in West Plains, Missouri right now, about twenty miles from the Arkansas border.  We left Iowa yesterday on an eight-hour car ride, leaving behind a cold rain and colder temperatures.  We own four acres between Gentryville and Drury off of Highway 95.  We’re actually down here to look at another parcel of land, one that might be better suited to our requirements.  Neither town is a huge metropolis; the nearest city of any size is about 25 miles in any direction, and then you can take your pick.  According to the phone books there aren’t any Borders or Barnes & Nobles to be had for many miles (Springfield might be the closest one…), so I say thank goodness for Amazon.com and Ellora’s Cave ebay store to feed my reading fetish.  (  So why are we down here pretty much in the middle of nowhere?A dream.  I dream of a time when I can step out my door and walk over to Fortune’s paddock to pet her, groom her, or feed her.  I dream of having my own chickens, of raising goats for milk, of having an outdoor building full of four-eight breeder pairs of parrots.  I dream of living on my land in the middle of nowhere and doing what I love – writing.

The fact that it may not be –20 all winter long is just a plus to this Iowa girl, though I do love fall and winter, but when the mercury dips below 0 then it’s just plain cold.  

I think we all need a dream to which we work toward.  Whether it’s a new car, some acres, or a place to retire on the beach, we need something to keep us going.  For me, it’s five acres of heaven, with a spring and a natural creek on it.   Steve and I walked it today, and it’s a beautiful thing to actually reach out and touch your dream.

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