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What is it
that makes us dream
an alternate reality
as if such possibility
had fleshed in,
begot life?
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(c) 1981, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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Re-posted from 2012, originally written in 1981.
Photo taken in 2008.
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makes me wonder,
also, Betty?
and it happened
long before
facebook 🙂
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Indeed, looooong before. 😉
Thank you for reading and commenting, David.
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Maybe dreaming is the one thing that seems real in such an unreal world these days.
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Sometimes I wish we could dream ourselves into a whole new kinder and gentler world, Charlie.
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This is very deep Betty 💜🌹
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Thank you, Willow. 🙂
(Am on my PC for a change, so no emoji’s, alas! Maybe ❤ will work for a heart.)
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Yes excellent it worked 💜
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Can’t make flowers, though. 🙂 ❤ ❤
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(°^°)
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🐦 🙂
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May we keep on Dreaming Betty and manifest Beauty instead of the Beast..
Lovely Poem Betty.. and Image..
Love and Blessings
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Thank you, Sue….I’m too am hoping Humanity will succeed in manifesting a better world. We must!
Love and blessings back to you.
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❤ yes we must! ❤
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A profound thought, memorably put – the sterility of fantasy despite it being part of our nature and to some degree essential. It’s always been a dilemma, never more so than now with the ubiquity of the internet.
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I’m hoping we can take the path (via our dreams, visualizations) into a new paradigm – a more positive one. (An alternate reality, so to speak.) The choice is with us – just a matter of realization. Thanks very much for your comment! 🙂
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Beautiful poem, and a deep question, Betty. 💗💗💗
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Thanks very much, Lauren. ❤ ❤ ❤
Hope you've been having a good weekend!
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Considering alternate possibility when life is bleak?
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Yes….I haven’t given up hope. The world has become a scary place (even scarier than when I wrote this!) Thank you, Sharon.
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Just noticed the title – of course.
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Maybe, just once, a solution will appear, one that stays on waking.
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Yes! I keep thinking if we just keep visualizing…. Thank you Ken.
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°•° 🌻🌻
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Back on my phone now. 💐🌸💕🍀
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Ah! And a plethora of flowers appears! 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻💞💜🐇
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Love such a beautiful manifestation!
🌸🌼💮🌹🌻💐🏵️🍀🥀🌸😍❤️
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💜I have to go to bed now night 💜
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Sleep well! 😴
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Thank you 💜
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Begot, begets, begetting … our only restriction to accessing these alternate realities lies in the need to be present to one only. They are all there, fanned out or stacked in holograms like a hand or deck of cards. Nice offering, Betty! ❤
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Bela, thank you – I like that way of picturing the alternate realities. Also they’re like different frequencies we’re able to tune in to. We can choose. 😍💕
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We can.
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Where do dreams end or begin, I wonder.
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“Consider all phenomena to be dreams.
Don’t be swayed by outer circumstances.
Be grateful to everyone.
Don’t brood over the faults of others.
Explore the nature of unborn awareness.
At all times simply rely on a joyful mind.
Don’t expect a standing ovation.”
– Atiśa, 980 – 1054, Seven Points for Training the Mind and Heart.
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Thank you for this beautiful quote, Ben. Am going to copy it, hang it on my wall. Have never heard of Atisa…. will research. Might be in one of my anthologies (along with Hafiz and Rumi perhaps).
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❤
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