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.”

5/20/23 I am at Art School

I am at college in an art class. I sit in the back on the left. I am excited to be here. I don’t understand what the male teacher is saying. An older, male student who sits in front of me finds two papers of mine. He asks if they belong to me and gives them back.

After class, I wander around the college. It has lots of levels with stairs all over. I notice snow outside a window. The school is in California so this seems strange. On one side of the school is a run-down part of the city. I am wearing shorts. I realize I forgot my white brace for my left knee which I have had replaced.

I am in my room. A young, neighbor woman comes and asks to borrow a cup. I pull some from the cupboard and notice they are all dirty. I wash them.

Some scene with about 10 young women dressed in red, Santa outfits. They are walking on a sidewalk with other people. Three of the women get shot by the authorities. I am on the sidewalk as well. I fear for the other women.

A scene where a young man falls from a 2nd level holding a long, wooden pole/stick. He is attempting suicide. It doesn’t work. Someone else, however, did commit suicide.

Feeling: excited about art class. In a daze/lost, but know I will figure the whole school thing out. Sad about the man’s attempt at suicide, and relieved it didn’t work. Fearful for other Santa Claus dressed women.

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