a w a k e : t o : d r e a m

People have asked me what the name of the site means, and since it is meaningful to me, I don’t mind sharing it (I am not the mystery woman that Finslippy is). It is not:

- a new-agey type of mantra
- a fantasy novel
- a new concept for meditation

In reality, awaketodream was sort of the last, easiest to remember option for blog names that I could think of when I moved my blog over from it’s previous incarnation, the coaster, hosted on blogger. (excuse me while I cough snidely in derision.) My first blog after I removed my blogger training wheels way back in July of 2003 was sleeplessinsurrey.net. At the time I lived in an adorable ikea-themed basement apartment and was fighting off an impending illness the likes of which would change my life completely.

Good time to start a blog.

Sleepless in surrey came about because I lived in surrey, a very large city south of Vancouver, BC, and I felt safe enough

“Advent,” as I was admonished this weekend on the radio, “is a season of waiting.” I happened to catch a piece of the news on Sunday morning - the morning after the deadline passed to release the four workers from Christian Peacemaker Teams held hostage in Iraq - which included an interview with the director of CPT in Canada, talking about how the parents of the Canadian hostages from CPT were doing. He said (approximately), “About the only thing keeping them going right now is their faith. They’re aware of the irony - Advent is a season of waiting, awaiting the birth of Christ, and for them, awaiting news…”