Author: Denise

(Saturday, April 25, 2026) waxing gibbous moon Libra

Last night I got a text at 12:26 a.m. from one of Bonnie’s Arizona dream friends. It woke me up, then I fell back to sleep and had this dream:

Chris and I are lying in the bedroom I used to have upstairs (where the grandkids sleep now). It is dark. He is asleep. I have discovered a process with my phone that works well for Zoom meetings. Maybe it is a new phone. I am holding it in front of me, filming a video of my face and body. Happy it works. I look a bit different than in waking life. My hair is nearly black and cut slightly above my shoulders. Round format, no curls. My face is much younger in appearance, maybe 40 or 50 years old. Even though I do not look the same, my mouth still moves slightly off-center, as it has done my whole life because of my birth-stroke. I am getting ready for a Zoom meeting with Bonnie’s group at 6 a.m.

Day notes:

My birthday present yesterday was to visit Deborah for my yearly astrology reading. I showed her the faerie book I am working on. When she saw the photo of me in my mid-fifties, she said I looked thirty years old.

(Wednesday, April 22, 2026) first quarter moon Cancer

I dream about a very large house. Mine? I am not sure. The basement is made of very thick cement, almost like a new parking ramp. In one area of the basement, the cement is so deep it is nearly touching a window area. When I am upstairs, on the main floor, I cry about the loss of a female cat that I love. In the dream I can’t remember her name, but she must be Lola. When I go into the basement, a small stray kitten shows up. He seems healthy and fed, but I worry. I make sure I take care of him. There are other cats wandering around the lower level, and I wonder how they they got there.

Day notes:

My mother is home from the hospital today. Perhaps the female cat in the dream is Doreen? Maybe the stray is Snowball.

There is a handsome, updated house for sale a block away. I was wishing we were at a point we could buy it. I really love it. It was built the same year as this house, 1903, and also has a limestone basement. But it is four bedrooms with two bathrooms and has a beautiful backyard with big white pines. I bought a small house in 2020 because at this age I thought that was the proper decision. Now we need more bedrooms for Cullan and our grandkids. Yet, if he finds a new relationship the two could end up buying a house together. Prediction is difficult right now.

Friday, April 24: This may be a precognitive dream. Cullan has a new girlfriend that he is very happy with. Yesterday we had a serious conversation about how to update this house (I call it his house). We discussed redoing the basement (new cement floor, new windows, new rooms, new walls), which is probably the best decision. I showed him pictures of the nearby house I wish I had bought, and he agreed that it is gorgeous. But he thinks this house has “good bones.”

(Monday, April 20, 2026)

I spent yesterday in the hospital with my mother and felt like “meeting with” my great-great grandmother Scholastica Cratte (many different spellings), who was born in Mendota and died in Wabasha. Today I went for the long Mendota walk I used to do on my lunch break when I worked at Ergotron. I photographed a bunch of the historic signage at the Faribault house. I looked into the Fuller ancestry website and saw that one of my great-great-great grandfather Captain Duncan Graham’s daughters, Marie Elizabeth, married Alexander Faribault. Duncan’s daughter Sarah Marie married Etienne Olivier Cratte (originally from Quebec). Their daughter was Scholastica. Both Jean-Baptiste Faribault (Alexander’s father) and Duncan Graham were fur traders in Mendota, and both of their wives were Dakota. Wabasha, the town my grandmother Lenora grew up in, was named by Captain Graham (inspired by his wife’s grandfather Red Leaf Wapasha). It has been reported that Duncan’s parents were members of Scottish nobility and his emigration was a protest against the society of the day. Most of this information is from the Fuller website (links below). Some of it conflicts with the ancestral story from my aunt, but I do trust the Fuller site more than passed-away Aunty Bernadine.

Ancestors (maternal grandmother Lenora Fuller):

Red Leaf, Chief Wapasha I (wife unknown)
https://gw.geneanet.org/rnelson?lang=en&n=wapasha&oc=0&p=i
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wapasha/genealogy/wapa1.html
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wapasha/genealogy/wapa1-children.html
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wapasha/genealogy/index.html

Jean Pennishon + Winona Wapasha (Wenonah?)
Captain Duncan Graham + Susanne Istagiwin Hazahotawin
Etienne Olivier Cratte (Crête) + Sarah Marie Graham
Timothy Fuller + Scholastica Josephine Cratte
Henry Timothy Fuller + Matilda Behrns (Behrens?)
Bernard Michael Sheehan + Lenora Mary Fuller

Wednesday, April 22, Earth Day: I am meditating with my ZenWave device and reading my tiny “How to Sit” book by Thich Nhat Hanh. There are a lot of pages about ancestors. He says that they are inside of us, in every cell. Breathe together!