title: Daring to Dream Once Again: It's Never Too Late!
author:  Dinah Lin 
description: At age 73, Dinah Lin is living proof that its never too lateto follow your dream. She is beginning yet another new stage in her life, this time as an author and speaker. At age 58 she followed a dream and moved to Beijing to study Chinese and re-connect with her roots. Prior to Beijing Dinah had spent over 25 years in the corporate world, as a senior executive in high-tech start-ups and Fortune 500 companies as well as three and one-half years as a senior political appointee in the George H.W. Bush administration in Washington, D.C. You can contact her at www.thedinahlin.com<br /><br />
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  ## Chapter 10
  
  ![Dream Ring](../Graphics/dream_ring.gif)
  
  #### _Unseen Eyes_
  
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  Selame was waiting when Egwene got back to her tent, a rail-thin woman with
  dark Tairen coloring and a nearly impervious self-assurance. Chesa was right;
  she did carry her long nose raised, as though recoiling from a bad smell. Yet
  if her manner with the other maids was arrogant, she was in reality quite
  different around her patroness. As Egwene entered, Selame folded herself into
  a curtsy so deep her head nearly brushed the carpet, skirts spread as wide as
  they would go in the cramped quarters. Before Egwene had taken her second step
  inside, the woman leaped up, fussing over her buttons. And fussing over her,
  too. Selame had very little sense.
  
  "Oh, Mother, you went out with your head uncovered again." As if she had ever
  worn any of those beaded caps the woman favored, or the embroidered vel