When I met my partner Jimmy Danko he was wearing a pale blue bracelet made from a slender ribbon on his wrist. He told me he had gotten it, a wish bracelet, on his trip to Ecuador. The bracelet was infused with a wish and worn continuously until it fell off. The bracelet would bring the wearer his wish. I did not ask Jimmy what his wish was and he did not volunteer it. At the time Jimmy was working full time at a corporate ad firm as a graphic designer to support his art habit.
In June of this year Jimmy sold a painting. He’d been working hard on his art since our apartment was completed and after all our travels he was ready to paint to full time. It wasn’t the first painting he ever sold, but it was the first one he sold when he didn’t have a “day job”. A couple of weeks later, the day before his first public exhibition, the bracelet fell off. When it did, I finally asked him what his wish had been. To be a full time professional artist. And so it was.
In light of this I recently donned a purple rubber band infused with a wish, a dream. I colored the band with colors to represent aspects of the wish. I then sent an email to some of my friends, who are also some of the most powerful people I know, and I asked them to hold the dream with me. As each of my friends has written me back, telling me the story of the dream as they are holding it for me, I have put a mark on the band to represent their vision. As the band fills with color and my inbox fills with carefully crafted visions of my dream I find that I am filled with certainty. I am certain that my dream is on its way.
I have been careful about who I’ve shared the dream with. There are some people I just know I can trust with something so precious. These same people know that if they ask it of me, I will hold their dreams with mine, and we will each be more powerful because of it.
Do you have a dream?
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