I used to have some really scary dreams when I was a kid. So scary that I would make my dad sleep in my bed and I would sleep with my mom in her bed. Finally, one day my mom got me a dream catcher to stop all the bad dreams. It worked really well. Of course we all have nightmares here and there. Some were even cool enough to write down and recant at any moment. I had a dream once where I was at a soccer tournament and people began disappearing and no one could figure out where the people were going. They would literally just vanish into thin air. Someone decided to start digging where the person had been standing when they vanished. They would dig until they found an open hole in the ground where they could see the person who had disappeared lying on their back covered up to their necks with a white cloth seemingly sleeping. The person would be rescued from the hole and they would have aged 5 years and they couldn’t remember a thing. It was a pretty sweet dream. I wrote it down and gave it to this guy who was a director and he said he could see it becoming a mini series or something. Whatever, I was young.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The drive was 6 hours to Sacramento and 2 hours more to Chico. The drive was full of farms with all different kinds of fruits and vegetables where different animals grazed. Cows of every color, sheep, and even a lama. Hills with the most amazing color green you will ever see. 
Trees that go through seasons. Bright red and yellow leaves everywhere. As we got closer to Chico, the towns were very southern. So southern and redneck it was kind of scary. I don't ever want to share the road with a tractor. One of those towns where you don't want to be stuck alone after dark. Stay inside and lock the doors.
River running between the trees. Hills all along one side. Dirt path leading right through. Runners and bicyclists passing by. Wood peckers pecking above our heads. Silence other than our foot steps along the gravel and nature.