Blog 3568 – 08.12.2025

“Feed Them On Your Dreams”

One of the recurring themes at:

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is dreams for as I have written many times that I believe that a children’s round we sang as children sizes up what life truly is. That little song says: “Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream.” When we think for whatever reason that we must fight against the current and paddle up stream we can make “our dream” seem more like a nightmare. One of the best answers to the question “How are you doing?” that I ever heard is, “I’m living the dream!”

I am a little late posting my blog today for I had an unexpected road trip that kept me pretty busy from about 10 pm Sunday night till about 1 pm today. My beloved sister-in-law and brother-in-law were pulling an RV camper trailer that I had bought in the spring from their home in Indianapolis to my timber/ recreational property in East Texas. They made it to Missouri before trouble with the van they were using to pull the trailer left the trailer in one Missouri town and them and their van in the shop in another town thirty miles away where the widow of my brother-in-law lives. They had been headed to the cousin’s funeral when the van left them on the side of the highway, but the kindness of strangers and family made it evident that a higher power was working behind the scenes. And I got an unexpected road trip out of it. It was a wonderful drive and fast. I do love a good road trip and have not had one of so many miles in so short a time since I retired from working on the road almost four years ago.

My dad’s dream job was driving a truck on long hauls across country. Before that he traveled as a teenager in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Some of his favorite stories came from working in CCC camps mainly in California and Oregon, a dream adventure for a poor Tennessee boy with wanderlust and he even got room and board, education classes, and on-the-job training too. He got to see some of our most beautiful National Parks as well. In the CCC camps they taught him to drive big trucks, which he did later in the Navy as a Sea Bee in the Pacific theater of World War Two. After the war and in the early nineteen-fifties he was a Teamster and loaded freight and drove eighteen wheelers across country. Dad gave up the road because his wife and two sons needed him home every night. But he fed us boys on his dreams as today’s second song says. Like the first song he found a kiss to build a dream on with my mom, my brother and I came out of that dream.

Sometimes people especially parents spend too much time and effort promoting a single dream, yet children, parents, and God (the Universe) need options and many dreams to pick from. This is probably the biggest reason that no longer believe “Just one life ‘twill soon be past and only what’s done for Christ will last” nor the Bible verse that says, “It is appointed unto men once to die and after that the judgment.” I think it is more likely that we each get to have many dreams, many lives, and many deaths. And as for judgment, not much time left for that just a lot of “lessons learned” on the job. I am thinking of the verse that says, “In him we live and move and have our being.” I see it more like the John Smith movie Dogma where God goes on vacation to the Jersey Shore to play Skee-Ball. Can’t see God playing Skee-Ball? I can, it is great fun. Use your imagination. Perhaps you just need “a kiss to build a dream on.”

Your friend, fellow traveler, and dreamer,

David James White

Louis Armstrong – A Kiss To Build A Dream On (Live At The BBC)

Louis Armstrong – A Kiss To Build A Dream On (Live At The BBC)

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children (Official Music Video)