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CHAPTER 1
arts & crafts getaways
Shiver awake now at the doing of your dream…
—Bob Savino, author and poet
B
y day, you're a doctor. Or a teacher. Or a stay-at-home mom. Maybe you file income tax
forms for a living or drive a taxi. But in the still of the night, in those last few moments be-
fore drifting off, there's a dream that keeps peeking around the corner of your consciousness.
Maybe it's a poem tapping on your heart, or a screenplay that won't leave you alone, but
there's a dream you keep pushing aside with some comment like “Nah! I could never sing or
dance like that” or “I could never make a film.”
Now is the time to quit pushing that dream aside.
In this chapter, you'll find 24 arts-and-crafts getaways. They're vacations that will give
you uninterrupted time to pursue that childhood dream, whether it's playing the guitar or
designing your own home.
It doesn't matter if the song you write is never heard on the radio. Who cares if it doesn't
make the Top 40? Somebody out there needs to hear it. Maybe it's the 92-year-old shut-in who
lives next door who giggles every time she overhears you sing “I Wish I Were an Oscar Mayer
Weiner” in the shower. Isn't that enough?
