(Thursday, November 5, 2026)
Yesterday I had a conversation with a student at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Stimulating the Aging Brain study). I told him I would contact my two neurologists on my Mayo portal and ask them what they think of this trial. Immediately one of my doctors got back to me. He thinks it is a fine idea. So I will try to proceed. I’m guessing Edgar Cayce would also approve.
(Sunday, All Saints Day, 2026)
Dream 1: A recurring dream theme for me is taking a showing in a commercial building, sometimes a hotel, sometimes a workplace. In the middle of the night I dream of looking for a shower in a multi-story building full of rooms and furniture. A woman, a kind dream guide, is helping me. At the end of the dream I rinse myself in the shower that we find together.
Dream 2: Early in the morning I dream I am biking with Cullan and my grandkids. We are in a very busy part of town. It feels like our nearby 50th street, but it also feels like London, like a European city full of buildings and winding, narrow streets. That hilly city-space is another recurring theme.
Cullan’s dream bike is a little different than his waking-life bike. He carries his two kids behind him instead of in front of him. I follow them. We are on the sidewalk on the left side of the street rather than the right (as required in waking life) and we pass by a bike shop I recently visited (in the dream). But now it is so early in the morning the store is closed, not open yet. It looks dark, the inside lights are turned off. Then I notice my handlebar is too low to the ground. I stop to raise it up. My seat is a bit low as well, so I make a second adjustment.
Day notes:
It is possible the retail bike store in the second dream is an element of the building I am exploring in the first dream.
In spite of the cold weather I am still biking very often, including this morning. Making level adjustments to my bike could be a metaphor for tweaks and changes being made in waking life. Moving up. Elevation. Although my PPA continues to worsen.
Shower dreams feel good, they are about cleansing and connection to emotions (water). Even though I usually have to search and search before finding a shower.
Some good words in this dream. Sidewalk: traveling, exploring a non-central element.
Hillary was upset that next year, in the fall, Cullan will be able to have Wyn and Oona more than two days a week. Both parents legally will then have equal custody. She was so full of anxiety she threatened to take their divorce back into court. Cullan told her he has had sorrow for two years not being able to see his children every day.
(Friday, October 30, 2026)
Today my friend Mary came to my house for a walk and a lunch. We ambled past two galleries in my neighborhood. The second one was extraordinary, full of black and white photos of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe (her roommate and lover in the late 60s, before he came out as gay). There were pencil drawings by Patti, too, which I had never seen.
It reminded me of Chris’ Patti dream, so I told him to make sure he sees the exhibit.
https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/patti-smith-mapplethorpe-lynn-davis-weinstein-hammons/
