Author: Denise

(Tuesday, January 27, 2026)

I met with Susan’s dream group last night. Susan has an art studio in the Northeast Art District (the California Building), and exhibits at the Art-A-Whirl every year. She says it has been too cold at her studio so she is only working there one day a week. I commiserate. I used to have the peaceful upper floor of our house all to myself, but now my only studio space is in our basement we call “the dungeon.” It is chilled and dreary.

For a year I have been talking about writing stories, including recent conversations with Claudia and Susan. Somehow I have to do this. It is my end-of-life project. Yesterday I shared my dream “Working With A Witch.” Edie the Herbalist agrees to hire me, to give me a job. One of Susan’s interpretations is that I will write stories about my dreams, some that include Edie. Susan also believes I have a healing for my cognitive decline.

One Lakota Medicine Wheel posting I saw online (there are multiple angle and color variations and interpretations): southwest is winter, white, spirituality, white hair, white buffalo, contemplation, healing and dreams. Probably gobbledygook, but it fits my latest Edie dream.

As unpleasant as it is, I will schedule calendar time everyday to spend an hour or two downstairs in front of my computer. Commitment makes things work.

(Saturday, January 24, 2026)

Multiple videos of today’s shooting by federal agents and the ICE OUT protests brought up two sad synchronicities for me. A video that was seemingly filmed (shot!) from a second-story window, or maybe from a drone, showed a building one block away from Nicollet Avenue called “Icehouse.” Right on Nicollet, in the Eat Street area of the Whittier neighborhood, was an apartment building named “Good Dwelling.” A reminder of Renee. Today’s deceased Minnesota resident was an ICU nurse named Alex. ICU: I see you. Both Alex and Renee were 37 years old. 3 + 7 = 10, 1 + 0 = 1

Nicollet is of French origin and means “victorious people.” Cindy just reminded me that Renee’s middle name was Nicole. Nicollet is also a variation of Nicole/Nicholas, which means “victory of the people.” Nicollet Avenue is half a block away from my house. I am praying for victory.

Day notes:

Alex’s death occurred at 26th and Nicollet.

(Thursday, January 22, 2026)

I have asked for Edie the Herbalist to enter my dreams again. A woman whose appearance and personality match Edie was in my dream this morning. Dark hair, a bit stern. She is in charge of a large, circular area, perhaps being viewed from inside a building. I need help and I ask if I can work with her. Get a job. She agrees. I am worried that if Chris and Cullan join me and live in the workspace I will lose our house. So they stay home.

My contact with “Edie” is in the southwest end of the circle, which makes me think of the quarterly sections of medicine wheels. It is the lower left (southwest) side of my brain that is in decline.

Day notes:

Work to do. I had my first electronic acupuncture treatment today. I am trying to contact a particular neurologist at the Mayo who guides a staff of thirteen doctors at the Brain Adaptation and Stimulation Lab. The lab focuses on epilepsy and seizures, so perhaps they will not allow me to meet with them. Edgar Cayce, send me a blessing!

I have a Zoom meeting soon with a coordinator at Northwestern (named Elizabeth). I am planning to join one of their studies for PPA (aphasia). Every two years I will need to go to Chicago and stay for four days. They will pay my hotel rental and other expenses.