To catch up! About Us...

HELLO!

This is the first official blog of Dreem Reality! How exciting! I wish we would have started the blog just a few weeks earlier to catch some of the fun things we have accomplished so far. But, I'm quite sure it's for a reason, and is absolutely perfect the way it is.

So, what is Dreem Reality? Honestly, we're still developing what it is, as every day we think of something NEW that the organization can encompass - what services it can offer, what lessons it can hope to teach, how it can inspire and motivate in another way. But for the sake of our sanity, yours, and of course posterity...here's what we have so far as an "about us":

Dreem Reality is a multi-purpose educational non-profit organization, with major focuses on self-development, goal-achievement, and motivation. Also a scholarship and special needs oriented charitable organization.

Through various methods we hope to provide people with the inspiration and tools to realize and actualize their Dreems. We'll do everything from providing a "Dreemer" moderated forum to network and explore your ideas in a loving and non-judgemental arena, to getting hands on with projects that will help you achieve your Dreem! All the while, we are achieving our OWN Dreems.

(How was that? Of course I know that dream is spelled with an "A" and not two "E"s, but we are changing the concept of what a dream is to dreem, which is in the logo: Dare Reason, Evolve Existence, Manifest Reality.)

Ok, so "What the heck is a 'Dreemer'?" you may be asking yourself or your inquiring neighbor reader. Well, do you have a Dreem? Are you on the path to making that Dreem a Reality? Well then you would be a Dreemer! Officially though, I suppose our Directors and Founders are presently two ladies: Dani and Phoenix. We're the two jumping in front of the cartoony world in our logo, and I am Dani.

A bit about me then...

I consider myself a long time Dreemer through my 24 years of life. Even though some of my Dreems have been a bit "out of the ordinary" to most people in society, I still went for them. That may sound a bit conceded, but to tell you the truth I am really proud of myself for pushing past those criticisms and doubts...and that has led me here! Even now people scoff at the idea of starting a non-profit with this focus, but again I've got to look past those scoffs and just go for it. That's the ONLY way to get what I want.

Anyway, what kind of Dreems have I accomplished?

I've done the college thing, which was always one of my goals (and yes was scoffed at by my more "alternative lifestyle" friends). I graduated from Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, with a Bachelors in Psychology. I love Psychology, it's like learning how to think...healthily. Then later I applied for and got accepted to San Jose State University for my Masters in Industrial Organizational Psychology with a focus in Job Satisfaction and Motivation. But I decided to step out of that program (for now at least) do go for my other Dreems (more on those later).

Probably the series of Dreems I'm most excited about achieving was the acquiring and conversion of a 33 foot long school bus into a veggie powered motor home named LaFonda Olive. This was one that a LOT of people put down - either it was too expensive, too dangerous, too unrealistic, or too much work. But as cliche as it sounds, it didn't stop us (myself and my fiance at the time). We gathered together our closest friends, named ourselves Earth Tribe, and went out into the community to get support for our Dreem. Eventually we got together enough money and motivation to buy the bus from an auction, pull out and rebuild the insides, and convert it to run on Straight Vegetable Oil. Then we traveled around central and eastern US.

As things tend to do, that Dreem spurred the creation of the next Dreem - to create a business that sells alternative energy products. While full time in college my fiance and I began our business called The Organic Mechanic. We ran it together for 3 years until I moved on to other things and he has continued to grow it in the past 2 years of my absence! He's definitely a Dreemer. (Check out his website www.TheOrganicMechanic.org if you'd like)

Some other Dreems I'm proud of are:

• Getting my Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do
• Going sky diving
  
• "Coming out" to friends, family, and the world about being a lesbian
• Continuously scratching my itch for traveling and adventure

Anyway, these are just some things about me...ONE of the Directors of Dreem Reality. I hope to get Phoenix to give a little intro of herself soon. Until then, HELLO! I think I'll probably post another blog or two about the progress we've made so far and what projects we're ALREADY working on!

Namaste!

~Dani