- If you don’t like the way things are, quit whining.
- Find a Dreamer who’s “The Real Thing,” bring the dream down from Dreamland, and help her or him make it real.
- Train yourself to know which Dreamer is honest, upright, and just “off” enough to capture your imagination. Demagogues, tyrants, all manner of phonies, and crackpots also have dreams, but they are toxic, often lethal. Reject them.
- Find a Dreamer: the right one to match your own personality, expertise, genes, background, and drive.
- Work tirelessly with The Dreamer. Better to exhaust yourself for a worthy purpose than to meaninglessly pursue the evanescent.
I have been fortunate. I know more than a hundred Dreamers who are “The Real Thing.”
Just one is Avshalom Beni, Israel’s giant in the field of animal-assisted therapy (AAT). You may know as little about AAT-Tikkun Olam as you do about endocrinology. But know this: He is neither “alternative” nor mystic, nor fly-by-night wonder worker.
Avshalom (hama-israel@bezeqint.net) is waiting for you to discover his work, to join him and to understand that many people who suffer – inordinately dysfunctional families, children damaged by uncontrolled behavior, survivors still psychologically locked in the nightmare of the Shoah – can be at peace, and can be happy human beings.
Google Avshalom or other Dreamers, contact them, ask them what they need to realize their dreams.
Then take the best of your mind, heart, soul, and kishkas, and help them get what they need. Your dreams will be very sweet.
Danny Siegel is the founder of Ziv Tzedakah Fund. www.dannysiegel.com
