{"id":406,"date":"2012-05-12T06:38:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T06:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2012-05-12T06:38:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T06:38:37","slug":"dreams-can-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/dreams-can-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams can come true"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to see The Castaways<\/a> at Urban Coffee Lounge<\/a> in Kirkland tonight. It’s a ukulele band that does cover songs from the ’80s. I’ll give you a minute while you read that sentence again. They’re fabulous. You wouldn’t think a bunch of ukuleles and some drums could sound so cool, but they do.<\/p>\n

The lone woman in the group is a girl I knew when we were wee things — I have a picture of her at my sixth birthday party. She was always very creative and funny. She’s a well-known travel\u00a0 writer and blogger <\/a>who gets paid to write about her trips to Africa or Antarctica. You’d think that would be enough for a girl, but lucky her, for the last few months she’s been part of this band.<\/p>\n

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The Castaways on Friday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was great to see her having a blast, breaking her first string in a professional situation, joking about the next part of the rock n’ roll fantasy — lighting a uke on fire, or trashing a hotel room? It made me think of the way that the dreams of our youth can come true later in life and in a way we might not expect.<\/p>\n

When I was a kid I had the same dream I have now, to be a writer. I get paid to do it, so in a way my goal has been realized. I love to sing, and a few times a year I chant Torah or Haftarah at my synagogue. It’s kind of like performing. But if I was clearly thinking about my future self, it usually involved a popular book or two, not writing for arcane professional healthcare publications. And by singing I mean being paid for it. But Pam’s experience makes me hopeful that even at 47, whatever dreams I still have from childhood are still achievable.<\/p>\n

What are your childhood — or childish — dreams do you have? And what dreams have already come true?<\/p>\n

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