Excerpt from the Book

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Next week we launch our NEW BOOK!

80 pages of beautiful color photographs of our world record chalk drawing made a year ago by the kids and community of Alameda, CA USA.


Please join us in celebrating our efforts into keeping the arts alive for our kids, for the future, and for us all now.

School flyer going out to all the elementary school parents.

Excerpt for the book:
Along the Way: A Few Lessons
I Learned About Dreaming Big Dreams

• If you are going to dream big, be prepared to pay dearly. Dreamers pay in blood, sweat, and real tears for the wisdom they receive and the experience they get along the way.

• Dreamers require co-conspirators. You need to enroll others in your vision, you can’t do it alone.

• Asking for help is an art of its own. Keep asking, never stop. You'll never know if the person beside you wants to be involved in the project otherwise.

• Be prepared to have your original vision changed along the way, it's a natural process, pay attention, go with the flow.

• You get much more out of a community project than you put in. Awareness of what you achieved will transform you for the rest of your life.

• To dream big dreams and see them through, you need a strong internal fire to keep going. That fire will have to keep you warm on many lonely nights.

• When it comes to volunteers, there are two classes: those with the best intentions
and those whose best intentions are backed by real action. Whether your dream becomes reality or not depends on the latter.

• Consider carefully all the advice that you get along the way – but don't be afraid to ignore it and follow your intuition.

• Many people will not understand your dream at first. No matter: they will be inspired by your passion and want to be part of it themselves.

• If you are a dreamer and you aren't a master of all the skills you need
(e.g. accounting, project management, organization), surround yourself as soon as possible with people who are.

• Many people will tell you that your dream is impossible to achieve. Thank them politely - and get back to work.

• Be a maker of miracles. Everyone wants to be a part of a miracle.

Kevin Carrel Footer
Documentary Film Maker

www.reenchantingtheworldthroughart.org
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New Life

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Creation continues to evolve. The transient energy of chalk and nature.

An environmental clean-up agency that the US Navy hired is running their trucks over the chalk drawing They are cleaning up radioactive radium that the Navy used to paint on item to glow in the dark, they dumped the toxic waste into the storm drains which are now being cleaned out.


I have know about the clean up for a year or so. The work had not been started until after our event was over. I am working on a sci-fi story about this Alameda Navy Air Base. I think I will use the idea of the salamander and gingko leaf chalk drawing being effected and transformed by the radioactive energy.

The chalk drawing has really faded where the truck have run, some areas have been watered down. All detail and colors from the hand drawn chalk is gone in those places, but interesting enough life finds it's way back, as always, evolving, unstoppable, the pure force of nature.

The chalk drawing will continue to disappear, when the wind and rain come it should be mostly gone from this world but will last perhaps forever with photographs, memories, and positive creative energy invested wisely into our youth.



And then there is a man and his dog. If you followed the actually event you will have seen many pictures of Mr. Z. He was on site for all two weeks, only leashed when the school kids were with us and then still able to be petted and oo'd and ah'd over. He's such a good dog around kids. He continues to be a guiding light in my life.



We are close to moving our nonprofit over from the "Kid's Chalk Art Project" to "Re-Enchanting the World Through Art." The book about the event has begun and we are beginning to brainstorm about what's next.

~Mark Wagner
Founder

www.reenchantingtheworldthroughart.org
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