oh, brenna!

I’ve been trying to decide lately if it is possible to act like the same person in completely different environments with completely different people and I’m pretty convinced that it’s not. And that has made me wonder how genuine I really am… how genuine everyone really is. If our environments and the people that surround us influence our behavior so drastically, is anyone really themselves? Or are you only yourself when you are alone? Or, possibly, I guess the most probable, is that you are just different aspects of yourself in different environments. But even that doesn’t seem right to me. I just don’t know.

We are currently working on a Treehouse project, and I think I am going to base my treehouse off of a dreamcatcher.

Here is a nice description of dreamcatchers that I found on dream-catchers.org:

“Dream catchers are one of the most fascinating traditions of Native Americans. The traditional dream catcher was intended to protect the sleeping individual from negative dreams, while letting positive dreams through. The positive dreams would slip through the hole in the center of the dream catcher, and glide down the feathers to the sleeping person below. The negative dreams would get caught up in the web, and expire when the first rays of the sun struck them.”

I like the idea of a treehouse serving as a dreamcatcher in the sense that only good things and positive energy can enter into it. I would also like to explore the concept of filling the treehouse with beautiful sun rays that destroy all negativity.

Another nice idea is the concept of a dream-catcher as a person. One who chases their dreams and eventually catches them.
:)