dream the same dreams

Heritage and nostalgia can be powerful forces in our lives.

Collecting remnants of ancestors who lived their lives long ago, Clifford Day connects with his family from an earlier time when things were better and more simple.  He gathers stories, photographs and records to recall that after the US Civil War, his great-grandfather made his way to California and lived with Native Americans prior to crossing paths with Clifford's great-grandmother and falling in love.  

During his own lifetime, however, Clifford can remember all too well his early years (here he's pictured as a baby on the lower left corner) when money and resources were scarce and every day was a struggle.  A child of the Depression, Clifford learned from the get go the value of family working together to make it through each day.

In his retirement years, Clifford now enjoys a comfortable, active life that many folks will strive for when their time comes.  Perhaps it's knowing where his family has come from and what they were capable of achieving and enduring that have propelled him to dream the same dreams of his ancestors.  Perhaps it's these forces which have given him the resolve to make those dreams of the good life a reality.