Month: October 2023

Tuesday, 24 October 2023

On Saturday, October 21st, I was practicing the piano. As is my custom I had headphones (the piano is electronic, and I make lots of mistakes that I prefer not to share with the world). The headphones provide a pretty significant degree of sound isolation, but nevertheless at some point I began hearing yelling or shouting. I wondered if maybe it was some high spirited high school kids passing by, even though that is not something that happened before.

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10 October 2023

I had a peculiar dream. It was a segment in the midst of a long, loosely connected series. 

It was just after sun set, or thereabouts. Twilight. The western sky was a deep blue, almost gray. I was at a beach, or perhaps near a beach; I did not see the ocean, but somehow knew it was nearby. I walked inland, moving uphill, following a twisting path through boulders and shrubs, and came to a flattened rise. There were others there. In the twilight I could not make out their features. They were more than shadows, but less than shades hades. They came together into a crude circle, and I joined them. I don’t know why. I just did. Then they began joining hands.  I was a little reluctant, but the person next to me reached out and so I took his hand. Everyone crouched a bit, and so I did too. And then we all jumped, straightening our legs, propelling ourselves into the air. And up we went, slowly, and at the apex we floated for a moment, and then, captured by the faint pull of gravity, we sank back towards the earth, touching down softely. Again we jumped in unison, and floated, and sank. And yet again. 

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