Keeping the Dream

Greetings!

I’m Demian of “DreamSinger”, a songwriting partnership, with Stacey Young, dedicated to writing and performing songs of healing and hope. And I am a Stubborn Idealist. What this means is that despite what may appear to be evidence to the contrary, I firmly believe there is always hope.

Hope is a state of mind, not a money back guarantee. It’s the lens through which I choose to look at the world, and we all have them. Show me a totally objective person, and I’ll show you someone who’s dead.

I choose to hold on to my ideals and to interpret my reality through them, because to do otherwise is a total waste of time. What’s more foolish than to offer nothing but the helplessness of cynicism? How productive is that to you or to the world?

So for me, being an idealist is not only practical but crucial in this day and age, when those who acquiesce to cynicism, a very close relative to despair and apathy, are a threat to our survival as a species and to the entire global ecosystem.

Keeping the Dream is one of many projects. I take this message not only to my music as a singer/songwriter, but as a published author, speaker, advocate, mom and grandmother.

It’s never too late to become an idealist or to live your dream. In my 49th to 50th year of life, I released my first CD, published my first children’s book, “Little Little Yellow Pear Tomatoes, by Illumination Arts, wrote my first full-length book on relational aggression, “Where There’s Smoke”(now being revised), and became a brand new grandmom! I’m expecting my second grandchild in March of next year.

I love being an older woman, as I do with every aspect of my life. I did not always feel this way. In fact, most of my life I lived with a sense of guilt and shame inherited from my childhood of abuse, even as I sought to hide it under affirmations and a pretty good front. I guess I’m just tired of it.

This is for real here. I’m a stubborn idealist, not naive. I see a future of peace and prosperity, and I’m willing to plant the seeds for it. I acknowledge the failings of where we are and celebrate the distance we’ve already traveled to where we want to be. If we’re going to take the time to point out what’s wrong, then we better take the time to, also, honor what’s right.

Our world deserves that.

The underlying theme through all my work and all the articles in this blog is the healing journey. It’s this journey that we walk with hope and faith, with commitment and passion that ties everything - including us - together.

I hope you enjoy this site and its blog. More than that, I hope it inspires you to find your own inner idealist, to make friends with it and to not apologize for the hope that wells up in your heart. Live it.

Meet you along the path.

Demian,
~DreamSinger
Keeping the Dream

I go into what it means to be a stubborn idealist more in this post.
(October 20, 2007)