“Just dreaming is already important,

I wish you dreams never ending,

And the furious desire to make some,

I wish you to love what to love,

I wish you to forget what to forget,

I wish you birdsongs when you wake up,

I wish you laughs of children,

I wish you silences,

I wish you to resist the stagnation,

To indifference, to the negative virtues of our time.

I especially wish you to be you.”

Jacques Brel

This beautiful keepsake and sentiment is particularly fitting for Martin Luther King Day, and for dreamers everywhere.  I found this years ago in a print shop in the Belgian book town of Redu.  It has traveled everywhere with me. 

Still dreaming,

Marjorie,