Liam's Wish -intro

Hi and greetings to all. To get started on a 'train' of thought, I am going to reference a rather innocent yet profound statement made by my six year old son, Liam.

The other night, 11 Dec 07 to be exact, he and his brother had been sent to bed at a reasonable time (as far as us parents were concerned), of quarter to nine. I had settled down to explore further the 'torrents' on the internet, of which I had just come acress quite innocently while looking for a keygen for a kids' game :). The long and short of that, as a minor digression, was the downloading of Bitcomet and then viewing a number of, I'm sorry to say unimpressive blogs which prompted me to start this train.

So anyway, at about five to nine, who should appear but our youngest, unable to sleep (if I could get $1 for each time I heard “I Can't sleep” I'd be rich!), but unlike previous nights where I'd try to persuade the hopeful stayer-upper-later to count whoolly sheep, this time he just wanted to tell me his wish. Earlier that day he had asked me, with childish simplicity and optimism, “could dreams come true?”. I have always been careful to avoid negative comments with my kids, to ensure they are able as well as they can, to pursue ideas and actions as much as they want. I am also reasonably optimistic, so answered Liam's question in the affirmative: Yes, dreams can come true but some take more work than others. Incidentally, we discussed this a bit more the next day while walking home from school.

So Liam would like his wish to come true, and I thought it would be worthwhile to start a train of thought and ideas as to how this wish could come true.