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Dream Beyond the Dream
Dream Beyond the Dream
By:
Joe Tye
The morning chill had long since evaporated, so Charlie had tied his flannel hiking shirt
to the outside of his backpack to let it dry. Almost exactly thirty years ago, he had
written down in his Dreamcyclopedia a goal to spend a week alone hiking in the Grand
Canyon. He’d never thought it would take this long, but now here he was, high on a
ledge overlooking the Colorado River. He had not seen another human being in four
days.
It was hard to maintain the appropriate state of awe in this magnificent cathedral, where
every vista seemed to outdo the one before. As he rounded a corner, Charlie saw a
hollow in the limestone wall that just seemed to cry out for him to stop and take a break.
Dropping his backpack onto the ground, he extracted a bag of gorp, his water bottle,
and his journal. He picked up his walking stick and turned it slowly in his hands, again
reading each of the names that had been meticulously carved into it.
Each name brought back a memory of someone who had helped him build The Courage
Place into a worldwide phenomenon – more a movement than a business – through
which thousands of people had found a sense of direction, and the courage and
determination to follow it. The business had grown in many directions that Charlie
would never have anticipated in the early days, and the dream continued to get bigger
and bigger.
The walking stick had been a gift at his retirement party several months earlier. It was
presented to him by Cheryl von Noyes, who had become CEO of Future Perfect Now
upon the retirement of Bill Douglas. “Just as we have leaned on you throughout the
years,” she’d said in her remarks, “now we want you to know that you can lean on us
wherever your trail leads you.” Charlie knew that was why he was in the Grand Canyon
at this time, and why the trip had been delayed for so long. Thirty years ago, Alan
Silvermane had told him to “Dream Beyond the Dream.” Charlie hoped that Silvermane
would have been proud of what he’d accomplished; the thirty-five year old Charlie