I am still in the frontier of all this, both dreaming and blogging, so join me if you are too: I dreamed years ago about going “off road” with a bus full of prisoners (friends who were unable to break out to freedom in some ways.) I just jumped up, moved into the drivers seat and started driving. We were trying to cross a canyon and were at a dead end-no bridge. I started the bus off the end of the “dead end” and down a grassy slope, then down concrete stairs that were quite bumpy. People were yelling at me “you will kill us-you cannot go there!”

Yet I knew I could and should. We hit a road and then drove through a dark sort of arched pavilion. The people yelled again “it will not fit-you will wreck the bus.” The sides and top were not big enough it looked to them. We went through the darkness anyway and missed by a quarter inch maybe.”

Coming out the other side I got off road again and went to the “riverbed” in the canyon and stopped at a grassy spot on the bank. Then I looked and the words “unused infrastructure” were spoken by God to me. It came as I looked out over an endless chain of canals or bayous (as also called in the Gulf Coast region and other French influenced areas) connected by bridges. There were no people! It was just a huge thing that others thought useless and even dangerous. There might be gators in those places (I guess now this, it was not in the dream, just that for whatever reason it was not being used at all-vast and endless but needed to be recognized as useful.)

It might be likened to Venice or Amsterdam (or half the country of The Netherlands) but empty. The visionaries saw Venice as a series of canals, and Amsterdam also as a world class port, but the “practical people” saw these places as places where the bubonic plague killed tens of thousands, swampy diseases continue to lurk, and the water was unmanageable. Problems were seen, not solutions.

So, I am writing my first ever blog about a dream: that the www and internet, a connected series of “bayous” if you will, almost empty considering the size and scope of its future, will become an infrastructure that promotes good things, redeemed in quality and assisting in building community that brings health and peace to many.