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Posted by Joshua Niman in on March 17th, 2010 | no responses

MY ELUSIVE DREAMS: analyzed in a Venn Diagram I love listening to the plaintive Roger Miller duet, “My Elusive Dreams,” in which a couple sings about a man’s “elusive dreams and schemes.” He is apologetic and sad and just plain unable to make progress. So what about my dreams? I will say that my dreams have never equated to schemes. And that I have made progress on each of them. And that pursuing them doesn’t take an enormous toll on my family (though there is some toll). But, WHY? Why, when I could pursue other paths that would provide a much greater chance of success, do I pick dreams in which there is so little reward for so many fellow dreamers? And why don’t I stick with a dream? My novel is almost done. My non-fiction proposal is finally out to agents. And now I want to publish scrapbook layouts? What keeps me from making that final focused push? Maybe, though, I am pushing. Maybe I’m not jumping from dream to dream. Because, LOOK HERE!, at this Venn diagram and see how things overlap. Maybe writing fiction and non-fiction and scrapbooking are all the same dream and I’m pursuing this dream well. And, even more, when I really think about it, I just have to ask: “if a dream weren’t elusive, then would it still be a dream?” January 2005.

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