Dreams

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

~ Richard Branson

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So this balloon didn't make it around the world. It didn't pop either, though. How a balloon gets stuck in a pine needle tree without popping, I don't know.

Balloons are like the dreams of children. They happen, they lift and they enudure remarkable challenges and circumstances. And, over time, if they are not popped, they wither up and become deflated, hanging from branches or stranded atop trash heaps.