For the past three years I’ve had the pleasure of volunteering with Wilder Elementary’s Kindgarten classes. The whole school participates in creating collective class projects, which are then auctioned off at the annual silent auction. The students create everything from mobiles to Eric Carle inspired art that helps to raise funds for the school. The Kindergartners now have a standing tradition of creating words by forming letters with their bodies. It takes a lot of parental involvement to get everything just right and I’m always impressed by how involved the moms and dads are. It’s a great school and a fun project that I’m told fetches a lot of bids and is well worth the many-parent effort!
So as we approach the new year, faced with new resolve, I wanted to include one of the words that the Kindergartners created. Dream. Because it’s such an easy thing to put aside as an adult–if we don’t continue to dream, imagine and be inspired as adults life gets pretty boring and our expectations become stymied and we settle. Don’t settle in the new year. Dream and be inspired. 
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