Dreams Can
Come True
KONA MORRIS WORKMAN
ROCKING W RANCH
In a letter I received not long
ago was this bitter remark: “I
used to dream of doing wonderful
things, but now I’ve quit dream­
ing.
What good does it do?
Dreams never come true and you
are always disappointed.” I have
been thinking often of this' writer
and have decided to write today
of my dreams.
I do not mean those dreams
which seem so real to us in our
sleep, but rather of those dreams
in which we sometimes indulge
during our working hours and
which often seem so impossible
of attainment. It has been said
that man cannot vision an im­
possibility.
If he can imagine
himself doing a thing, then it is
a possibility, otherwise he would
have been unable to think of it.
Daydreams, if brought into mani­
festation by determined action,
are the basis of all achievement.
No picture was ever painted, no
story ever written, no great deed
ever accomplished, unless it had
first been visioned, or dreamed,
as we say.
Each one of us holds »¿thin
ourselves a portion of that power
which thought the world. How
few of us use more than the
smallest particle of that creative
ability. We are like the person
who, having all the electric cur­
rent in the world to use, puts in
only a miserable little one-candle
power bulb, and then wails be­
cause the light is dim.
Yet before we can create we
must learn to dream, to vision.
You may say that all people have
their dreams, and this may be
true, but they are not construct ve
dreams. There are people who
have not yet learned to vision
anything better than that which
they already do or have, and these
people stagnate in a frogpond of
their own making.
There are
others who dream, but idly, like
a child on a warm summer day,
who sees himself doing great and
exciting things but with no real
thought of attainment, and such
dreams lead the dreamer no fur­
ther than another dream.
You
must dream with a purpose;
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dream with full realization that
the vision you hold is but the
prelude to its attainment, and
then, when the idea lies clear be­
fore you, you must bring it into
physical manifestation with work
and deliberate thought.
Shall I make this a bit more
clear by a simple illustration?
My back yard has possibilities.
A beautiful tree is its greatest
treasure, but the surroundings are
not in keeping.
In my vision
of this, my dream for its future,
is a pool with water-lilies, smooth
green lawn, thick borders of
flowering shrubs and climbing
roses to serve as screens. That
vision .is clear, but I must ma­
terialize it. First, I mst uclear
away the present incumbrances,
then plant and build and culti­
vate before my dream can become
a reality, but the first act in
this, as in any creation, be it
garden or book, picture or deed,
is the vision, or dream, clear cut,
precise.
As soon as we begin to dream
and to mold our dreams into actu­
ality, we take our place as crea­
tors. (If we dream evil, then we
create evil, but today I speak only
of good). Many folks think that
to be able to create implies the
ability to do great and note­
worthy things. Read the simple
beauties of life and things are
forms of creation.
I have a
friend who has no idea of the
pleasure she brings to others by
her simple creative ability, and
one day she said to me: “I am not
clever enough to create anything.
I cannot write, paint pictures, or
compose beautiful musie.
How
then can I create?” We were hav­
ing tea in her garden. I answered
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by a question. "What did this
yard look like when you first
same here?”
She laughed. “It was really a
fright. So bare and dreary, with
dry grass-clumps and heaps of
trash, and the soil was so poor I
feared I could never make it as
I wished it to be.” *
I smiled. “Cet,’ I answered,
“you have made it into this green
restful spot with flowers and cool
water and shady trees—you have
brought into existence a place of
beauty. How then can you say
you do not create?”
What she did with her dream­
plan for a garden we can do
with many things. We can create
beauty, peace, happiness, about
us though wq may not, as yet,
have developed the possibility to
accomplish that which will bring
us world renown. And we must
have a bit of patience.
The
creation of my friend’s garden was
not realized in a day, or even a
year. The bringing of our dreams
to fulfillment can seldom be ac­
complished over night. We must
learn this, and be content to work
and wait a little, yet still keep the
vision clear in our minds, with the
will to accomplish as the driving
force.
Too many are content with only
dreaming. They escape from re­
ality into a dream world and re­
fuse to face the fact that to
make a dream come true there
must be clear-cut vision, a power
of will that holds you on your
course, and work, real work. No
book can be wr.tten or garden
filled with flowers, or anything
else created, merely by dreaming
about it. You have to bring it
into the physical realm by use of
material tmngs. A dreamer is
not a creature unless he can
manifest his dreams, but always
the vision comes first, and if the
will to do be there, that dream
will be real.zed.
"We build witn dreams.
They are the molds of all our
deeds.
The man of little mind may do
the coarser work;
The dreamer leads.
He builds the archetype
For lower men to mamfest below;
They blindly work, nor h_ed the
thing they do;
The dreamers know.”
So, let us dream as we do our
common daily tasks vision clear­
ly in our minds the thing., we
wish to become real, rememorring
always to build only that which
we know is good, and then work
patently toward its attainment,
and as we use this power of ours
to creates, it will grow in direct
proportion to its use, new ave­
nues will open before us, new
contacts will be made, and life
will attain a higher purpose and
a richer meaning.
Now, one last word of warn­
ing: Doni spend your time talk­
ing about your prospective crea­
tion. There is a sound psycholog­
ical fact for this caution. If you
talk about it too much, you re­
lease the sub-conscious mind by
talk instead of work. It is as if a
train used all its steam in whist­
ling and then has nothing left to
pull it up the hill. Perhaps the
rules for making your dreams
come true could be stated thus:
Vision the idea clearly;
Want it so much you have the
will to stick to your efforts in
spite of everything;
Work;
And, keep your mouth shut about
it.
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AN EAGLE -SUBSCR (PTION
THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1946
Bottenburg for my last stop in
Sweden.
A friend of mine sent me two
Vernonia Eagles, enjoyed them
very much. Be seeing you all
before long. Your friend,
LAURA CARLSON.
Letter Tells of
Trip to Sweden
RIVERVIEW—Excerpts from a
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news reporter from Mrs. Otto
Carlson, who with her husband, is
Nineteen out of twenty cigar­
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wrote from Svartbyomslyn Boden, might cause a forest fire. Chap­
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erone that cigarette—don’t let it
The motor trip to New York go out alone. Guard against fire.
was very nice except for rain. Don’t throw burning material—
Was stranded at Grand Island, cigars, cigarettes, matches; put
Nebr., by a cloudburst, water over them out. Our forests are more
running board of car. Had to valuable now than ever before.
park in street three hours wait­ KEEP ORTGON G^EEN.
ing for water to run off.
Left New York June 1st, water
rough, one-third of passengers
sick. I was in bed five days.
Could not eat Twenty-five mem­
bers of the crew deserted at New
York, causing a shortage of help.
Ocean voyage required twelv»
days due to engine trouble. One
passenger jumped overboard
around the tip of Scotland just
before we sighted land. Lost two
hours trying to save him. An
oighty-four year old lady coming OF COURSE, since you
home to die, died two days from
home shore; two babies were born are a careful driver, in
aboard ship, one died.
case of an accident “the
Everyone is so friendly here, other fellow” is at fault.
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