In 2024 this image told a story created by @conniemakita
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to share my dream through your eyes.
“It’s not a specific dream that I’m expressing, but I think it represents both definitions - dreaming while you’re asleep and also dreams as a goal or achievement. Do you ever have that feeling that someone’s going to wake you up one day in your life? That’s the correlation to what a dream is to me. I feel like one day someone’s going to wake me up and tell me this is a dream. In this dream, you realize how much power you have to create, and through creation we’re all able to help each other. We’re able to do these fruitful things to create communities within the system of the jadedness of someone else’s dream that was actually pushed upon us. To know that this is something you once thought was a dream but now is tangible and real does a lot to me when it comes to believing. Things can be real but also a very temporary experience that you can’t hold on to. Whether or not I wanted this type of success, that success might not have been the value of what a good life was. So it’s also like being able to let go of the idea of a dream that may not have been meant for you as well. It’s honestly the word itself, and also the experience of it in life.
The relationship of togetherness is very important to me.
We’re all one, but through colonization, we’ve become segregated and developed this judgment of not allowing us to understand that we are this entity of one soul. I believe we all came from one root of love, and through experiences of life, you morph into whomever you want to be. That’s why I appreciate Japanese culture so much, because it has very similar values to me as a Christian person - the practices of humility, gift giving and respect of nature.” -Tehya
