History in the Making

So here we are on April 22 at 4:49PM with a challenge set before us. A challenge to walk the talk, to jump in and make My Dream Is Possible far greater than any one of us. Isn't it amazing how a simple question can stir you up and change the course of your day and maybe even your life? See, the challenge did not come in a harsh form but in a simple question: "So what are you doing to see your dream fulfilled?"

You might wonder:"What is your dream?" I (Maggie) can tell you a lot of different things I still want to do and see and I am fairly sure that is true for Mike as well. Yet the question wasn't directed to us about 'those things' but about My Dream Is Possible, which we have lovingly started to call 'MyDip'. Actually my culinary mind wandered today and I thought how cool that is - everyone's dip just tastes slightly different and we get to part take of each one if we want to. That makes this community so wonderful and awesome - all of our dreams are different but are so amazing and worth pursuing.

That is what 'MyDip' is about - A community that empowers, enables, and supports people to follow their passions, fulfill their life long dreams, and support others in doing the same! That is our dream - this is what we want to see happen. And in some small way we have made steps in that direction. The Facebook page was born on November 13, 2009 and within only a few months, we grew to over 1500 fans (woohoo!). We have video taped people as they shared their dreams, encouraged the members of the community to post and share with each other and we even started working on a documentary type pilot program for TV.

Our feature story for the pilot program is of the Sutton family who has been on a journey to adopt a special needs child from Thailand. We got the privilege of sitting with them in their kitchen and hearing their story. How can one not be moved to tears by the love, the hope, the courage of these people? Their journey has been long, full of ups and downs, but ever so inspiring. They never quit even when they had every reason to. Their dream to provide a home and family for this boy and his dream to have a family of his own has kept them going. And now after 2 years of waiting, the Sutton Family finally has their opportunity to go to Thailand in a couple of weeks to meet their son Aaron for the first time and take him home!

We want to be there to capture this awesome moment when they get to hug their son Aaron for the first time. Actually, we feel like we need to be there since this is part of our dream. We want to see your dreams fulfilled and share in the joy of that. We hope to use their story and many others to inspire you to pursue your dream, even in the face of obstacles. We desire for you to dream big and to encourage and support others to do the same. We want to show that dreams do come true, that they are worth pursuing, even when at times the journey goes up and down, even when it seems impossible, if we keep going - DREAMS COME TRUE!

For us, going to Thailand is part of our journey. It is part of our story as we pursue our dream and continue to press the envelope of the possible to create this community of dreamers and achievers called 'My Dream Is Possible'. Today a challenge was posed of walking the talk and we are up for it. Here is our response:

Today is history in the making and you better believe it!

Our names are Michael Catlow and Maggie Deller and Our Dream is Possible!