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(Tuesday, December 16, 2025)

Yesterday afternoon I went to Susan’s dream group. I was a bit nervous because her members are brilliant and very engaged. But I had a lovely time. I sat next to Patty, whom I met at the first seasonal meeting. She has taught writing at Metropolitan State University and The Loft for over 20 years. Patty has six published books and is working on publishing a children’s book “of five hundred words.” Sylvia is a professional dancer. Hend is an amazing artist who had a beautiful display at the MIA last fall (which I saw with Wyn and Oona).

This synchronicity: I have been hoping to do a hermitage, maybe at ARC. Susan just got back from a spiritual retreat in Iowa. And everyone in the group pays as much attention to Michael Meade’s “The Living Myth” podcasts as I do. We talked about the one I listened to recently called “Importance of the Otherworld.” Another connection is that dream member Jessica is heading to New Mexico with her husband to take a class at the Ghost Ranch, Georgia O’Keefe’s historic property. She was at the Tucson IASD conference, but I don’t recognize her. I took multiple clay classes in Santa Fe.

From Bonnie: I am so happy for you to have these amazing women in your life!

(Wednesday, December 10, 2025)

A close feminine friend or family member is with me in the dream, on my left side. We travel together.

I see a big surprise at my left. We are driving up a steep hill and big, stony mountains pop up. I tell my friend we are in Colorado, although the mountains are empty of trees. They look more like the bare mountains in New Mexico or Arizona.

My goal is to arrive at a Minnesota location where I will be gifted old, square, black-and-white family photos. We get there, in the green, forestry environment of our state. I am handed the photos by someone on my right, whom I do not see. Excited, I rush through them all, but find no photos of myself, which I expected. It had been my plan to post them online. Even so, I feel the history of the imagery.

Day notes:

I have been doing ancestral work with my niece Tristann and my cousin Tom. I found one photo from Ancestry.com of my great-great grandmother Scholastica Josephine Cratte.

The photos remind me of Bonnie’s dream of the large (and small) photography shop.

From Bonnie: There are lefts and rights in the dream. To me this is a balance of feminine and masculine energy which is a good balance. There is movement from the bare mountains to the forest of Minnesota. Green-new life. Maybe you are carrying part of Scholastica in you, especially with that name and your love of words.

(Tuesday, December 9, 2025)

I realized last night when working on Bonnie’s dream (“TryingTo Find A Photography Store”) that my main focus is on words. Other dream workers in our group have vital understandings of the emotional, spiritual and functional processing of the dreamer, which is very inspiring. But words jump out to me. I guess my dream work is really about language and symbols. As having been a lover of writing for all of my life, this finally makes sense. Although it is probably not the most useful response to a dream.

From Bonnie: I love your attraction to the words of the dream. I have always thought of your insights portrayed through words as being very poetic and that it captures the “essence” of the dream.