Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
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Martin Luther King famously had one. Fantine used to have one (in times gone by). W.B. Yeats claimed to have nothing but his.
What are your dreams? Not the dreams which fill your sleeping mind, but those to which your waking mind steals away whenever it can. What do you dream?
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T.E. Lawrence
Do you learn best through hands-on experimentation? Or hearing it explained – by yourself or someone else? Or do you need to see it written down in order to remember?
Does understanding come to you through description? Or diagrams? Or do you need to see it done?
Or are you one of the remarkable few who can understand those instruction booklets translated from one language to another by someone who apparently spoke neither?