Category: Denise

(Saturday, September 13, 2025)

I haven’t been able to remember dreams for weeks. Snowball got me up at 1:30 this morning and didn’t let me sleep again until almost 5 am. My friend is Susan A. invited me to her dream group (she lives just a mile away) but I wonder if I will have any dreams by then (October 6).

I went on my e-bike yesterday to Lakewood Cemetery, a bit like a waking dream. I was trying to find the Humphrey and Mondale memorials but could not. I took photos of the giant Fridley memorial (the town where I grew up) and Rudy Luther’s memorial.

Lovely garden sculpture of a harp. I saw one memorial with the name “Ireland.”

(Wednesday, September 3, 2025)

I had a lovely lunch with my friend Jeanne C. today. She is a brilliant writer and artist, with degrees from MCAD and Hamline. Her kitchen is always full of books. She is writing a memoir of her passed husband Jim. At Gigi’s restaurant she told me about her recent recurring “hippie” dreams. She is living with people at least a decade younger than she, in a sixties-style commune. I think of Canadian dreamer Toko-pa Turner, who grew up in a commune. Jeanne thinks these dreams are about the collapse in the economy and the need for dramatic changes. People living together, not on social media, not in denial of human reality.

(Sunday, August 31, 2025)

Yesterday I rode my e-bike with Cullan and the grandkids. We followed the trail to Minnehaha Falls and ate lunch at Sea Salt. We biked to Fort Snelling and then crossed the Ford Bridge to a beautiful trail along the woods and the Mississippi River that I had never ridden on before. We biked for almost 40 miles. Today Cullan and I rode again, this time around the lakes and west to downtown Hopkins, a twenty mile journey. My brain health needs serious cardiovascular exercise. I am trying to ride at least one hour every day (my neurologists tell me to exercise for at least 30 minutes per day). I hope I can still ride a bit in the winter. I love to smile at the other bikers.