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DREAMS Dreams are an important part of a mentally healthy life.  From Infancy to death, we dream.  We dream of that new toy that we would like to have, of that person that we would like to fall in love with, and so many other things. Living in Central and South Florida I have known many Cuban "Refugees", people who have fled Communism.  Talking to some of them, discussing their life in Cuba, their reason to leave, and how they lived while there, I learned one thing.  They had dreams.  Dreams of being in Hialeah, free to wave a US Flag, to find store shelves loaded with food, and more that were so essential to their mental health. I guess that I could be called a dreamer.  I dream, of this and of that.  I think that I "work" my dreams more in my older years than when I was younger, but it is dreaming now, and was dreaming then. Currently, in the last couple of years, I have "played" my dream.  I don't spend money on tobacco, alcohol, women, or other unn
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       BOATYARD MUSIC A little something from Mike Rybovich (Mike owns Rybovich and son's Custom Boatworks, Palm Beach, FL.)  A lot of first-time visitors to our yard are surprised to see that I don’t spend much time in the office. I walk the yard all day, making sure that I know who we have assigned to what and how each project is progressing. When people ask why the owner of the company is in the trenches, I simply point to the name on the building. While cruising the yard, I hear the crew’s radios and blue tooth speakers blaring playlists from an assortment of musical genres. Music and boating have been joined at the hip since men first went to sea, with work songs like “Blow the man down,” “Spanish Ladies,” “Drunken Sailor,” etc. I recall sitting on Dad’s Chris-Craft under the sheds on the south dock when I was in my teens, listening to 8-tracks of Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and that silly Spike Jones while lending a hand as he worked