A STORY ABOUT TWO WOMEN WHO DREAMED

This is a story about two women separated between 100 years in time.  Both women had dreams and both women accomplished their dreams.  This is not a story about the importance of the dream but rather the importance of dreaming a dream and following through with your dream.

My grandmother was born in the 1800's in America.  Her name was Isabelle.  After her husband died and her children grown, she took boarders into her home in Colorado to support herself.  She would cook for them and the guest eat in the dinning room in her home, all at one table.  She would do their laundry and clean their rooms.  She did this all by herself.  Fresh homemade bread was with every meal and always a pie for desert.  Everything on that table was grown and/or made by her hands.  This was not her dream, it was just her way of life.  Her dream was to raise her children to be good people and to make her husband happy. 

This is the home that she took boarders in.

For another woman, her dream was what Isabella did just to get by.   However, her dream was not to just get by, she wanted more. After all this was her dream.  Her name was Priscilla.

Neither woman accomplished their dreams easily.  Both woman suffered hardships and difficulties in accomplishing their dreams, but neither woman ever gave up on their dream.

Isabelle's dream was her family.  Priscilla's dream was to own a hotel and a restaurant.  Isabelle lost children and had to fear for their lives in ways that women 100 years later never would wonder about.  Priscilla's dream involved money and knowledge and work that woman 100 years prior to her time on earth would never have guessed at.

This is the entrance to Priscilla's home and the place of her dream.

Priscilla's hotel is called La Mansion de Los Suenos.  Translated into English it means The House of Dreams. 

To have your dream become a reality will take what both Isabelle and Priscilla gave to their dreams.  They gave dedication, time, endurance, patience, care and lots of love to their dreams. 

For Priscilla, her dream involved another country far from where she lived.  As life has a way with us sometimes, Priscilla found herself visiting Mexico, in a place called Patzcuaro.  Sitting in the grand plaza of that town her mind developed her dream, long before the dream could and would come to a reality.

Priscilla made friends with a family that lived in Patzcuaro.  The friendship developed over years.  This family also owned a very old house near the plaza where Priscilla's dream had started to take place. The house had been in her friends family since the 17th century.  The building has thick adobe walls and stone foundations.   

Priscilla saw the home and she also saw more than just a home, she could see the grandeur of what this home was and how her dream could become a reality.  She purchased the home and started to work and work she did.  I will let you hear her tell you about this wonderful home that she restored in her own words.

As you could tell Priscilla took such care with her dream.  Details were important to her.

In her office you see the home as it was. The history is preserved.

People in Patzcuaro known to her have been painted by artists in the town.  

Not only the past is important to her but she took time out from her Birthday to greet people who came to enjoy her dream and have lunch.

 Priscilla's dream was not just a hotel but also a restaurant that pulled the history, the people, the town into that dream.  You have only seen the entrance to this building.  Now lets look at the restaurant part of this dream.

As for the rest of her dream, well she accomplished that portion as well.  You can tell from just looking at the care and quality that is displayed in the rooms that this is truly the House of Dreams that came true.

Are there possibly dreams that you have or dreams yet to be discovered?  Two women separated by 100 years discovered their dreams and accomplished them.  Each in their own way, yet both lived to see their dream come true. Isabelle raised a wonderful family that continued her excellent parenting onto their children lives and that parenting continues even today.   Priscilla provides a place where others can enjoy and maybe - just maybe - discover they too have a dream.

Never loose sight of who you are, but by all means never give up on your own dream.

That is it for today in Patzcuaro Mexico and as we say manana from 
Donna, Ken and lets not forget Butch.