Gifted Dreamers

With our head in the clouds & our feet on the ground

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Paid subscriptions help fund the nonprofits & people I care about. Right now, that’s 100% Texas flood disaster recovery.

Since July 4th, I have been part of Texas flood disaster relief in the neighborhood of Sandy Creek, in the City of Leander, Travis County, Texas. I live 10 minutes away.

Rebuilding neighborhoods for resilience can and must start anywhere & everywhere in rural, suburban & urban neighborhoods or any other -hood. I could discuss neighborhood development from any starting place. Raw land and land with piles of debris, like what happens after a disaster, seems a relevant place to begin.

“To give money is an easy matter in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter. Hence, it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble.”

Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)

My mom likes to remind me how I refused to take naps at 18 months-old. She still needed “mom-time”, so she would put me in bed with 20+ books. She recounts how I would quietly flip through books for over an hour. Apparently, that is pretty strange. Thus, began my “strangeness”.

This story must begin somewhere. I love to learn.

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” - Socrates

Here is where we begin our journey. We do not know what we do not know. Disasters happen. This is where hope for a better world can ignite.

Please lend your ears and eyes to some of the stories of my friends.