5/26/23 Controlling a Huge Bear

I am with a woman interviewer. I take notes, but do not ask any questions. We are outside and sit on a curb on a neighborhood street. The woman is in her 40’s and has a little, grey beard growing from her chin. Her 2-3 kids are around. The woman doesn’t follow the usual protocol. She talks about how her kids brush their teeth. She has them do it her way.

Later, I am upstairs in her house. I pass a bedroom. Her husband? is there. He is trying to control a huge bear by leading it with a blue handkerchief tied around its neck. I go into the next bedroom where two of the girls are. I tell them about the bear.

The bear comes into the bedroom the girls and I are in. The father says to get low implying the bear won’t attack then. I sit down. The bear is behind me. He has his snout at my neck. I breathe deeply, staying calm. The father puts the handkerchief around the bear’s neck and leads him out of the room.

Feelings: curious about the woman, nervous, scared about the bear, calm when the father leads the bear away.

5/25/23 A Child’s Play and Tom Dies

Jeanne and Tom present a children’s play in a small town. However, it is not organized, so no kids as well as any adults come. Tom is dressed colorfully and wears a cap. I don’t remember what Jeanne is wearing. The play takes place outside. Jeanne and Tom move around town presenting the play, even through a tall grass area.

Tom dies. I am not sure how this happens. He is very thin. He is in a box. His adult daughter comes to get him. I start putting wrapping paper over his body. This annoys the daughter. She takes it off. Tom’s body is still warm. The box is closed and taped shut.

Later, Jeanne and I are to meet at a gym to work out.

Day Notes: thinking about Paul and my future. Which house should we sell. Worried we do not have enough money to live on now without taking out from our savings and then thinking we will not have enough in the future.

Now I Have Time To Care For My House

(Monday, May 22, 2023) waxing crescent moon Cancer / tarot Strength

Snowball woke me up at 5 am for his breakfast. I fell asleep again and dreamed that I was asleep and dreaming. I was aware of my sleeping self lying on a bed in the top floor of a large communal house. When I awoke within the dream, I made the decision to do some house-cleaning. It was raining and I no longer had a job, so I went down to the basement to grab a vacuum cleaner. My mother was there, a “lower-level” being.

I climbed the stairs back up to the top. I sensed the presence of Claudia. We both felt like putzing at cleaning, in a slow and relaxed way. No pressure for speed or obsessiveness. Even so, the dream was full of detailed and colorful images of the house furnishings.

Day notes:

I am reading “No Death, No Fear.” When Thich would meditate, he would breathe in and think, “I have arrived.” He would breathe out and think, “I am home.”

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