HEALTH ISSUE | APRIL 2021
How to dream like a kid again and invite silliness and play into your life by Cheryl Melody Baskin Author of Heart-Dreamer: Stepping into Life, Love, Creativity and Dreams – No Matter What
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Grandma Moses started painting when she was seventy-eight. Harry Bernstein achieved fame as an author at ninety-six. Julia Child wrote her first cookbook at fifty. Viola Davis gained fame as an actress in her forties. Colonel Sanders began Kentucky Fried Chicken at sixty-five. As for me? Although I am on the older side of life, I continue to discover new layers of creativity, lightness and joy. Have I always enjoyed a light spirit? No! Life wasn’t fun when I was a kid. I knew I was loved, but I also felt invisible, voiceless, overwhelmed by senseless rules, and tormented by school bullying. My childhood could have been a disaster if I hadn’t accessed my imagination. I visualized myself as a world-famous actress, singer and writer, spending endless nights making up plays and stories.
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How to dream like a kid again and invite silliness and play into your life by Cheryl Melody Baskin, author of Heart-Dreamer: Stepping into Life, Love, Creativity and Dreams – No Matter What
My imagination was a secret place within me that no one could destroy. This is the case for so many children -whether they have an idyllic or less-than-perfect life, each child has a capacity to dream deeply and create whole new worlds. It is this
