More Word Art

I found this framed word art in the Random Section of Goodwill on Dollar Thursday.  This was .99 however it wasn't the right colored tag to make it a dollar; so the jokes on Goodwill because I got it for less than a dollar anyway.

I'm not a stitching expert but it looks like possibly needlepoint in two colors, pink and dark pink.   The gold frame adds some bling.

Google helped me find the possible author of this quote which was taken from a larger poem attributed to Laine Parsons; although I'm not 100% it belongs to her, but my extensive one minute research points in that direction.  She has a poetry book on Amazon:

Always Follow Your Dreams: A Collection of Poems to Inspire and Encourage Your Dreams by Collin McCarty, Nancye Sims, laine Parsons and Sue Mitchell (1985). 

I brought this to work and haven't been able to hang it up yet in my office but most of the time it leans against a chair which faces the door, and those who walk through it, including myself.  I hope that it inspires those who come into my office.  Words are just words at times but they are the tools of my trade.  

The one receiving the words can choose to either accept and internalize or reject and deny.  I don't read or recite this poem to people; that would be weird.  I leave it up to them to read it.  Most of the time it's ignored and sometimes if someone needs the chair, it's not even visible.  

Maybe I need it for myself, as a reminder.  Goodwill may have determined it's value at less than items on Dollar Thursday, however, art is inherently priceless if it inspires positive change, hope,  or a decrease in blood pressure (as some ocean scenes do for me).  

If I managed to hang this word art on my wall; it would be a first...a first because so far, nothing hangs on my walls...maybe that should tell me something...or maybe not...something to think about.