Mom called this morning early and woke me from a dream;
"I was up late last night mom... (pause)... Reading, mom. I was reading." We hung up shortly. A bit later she called back to follow-up, and, Ha ha ha, ah ha ha ha ha ha. I started telling her my dream:
Austin, Texas was a fabulous place and many were there: my parents, sister, chris, Granny, sharon. We were on a mission to buy Granny a cowboy hat. She knew just what she wanted.
On the way, we saw a stack of armadillos. Some people were stacking armadillos. I felt it was cruel. One armadillo sauntered off, disgruntled. His teeth fell out of his mouth in one peice, like a rack of dentures. He stopped in his tracks and gummed them back into his mouth with his lips... got to make due with what you have, i thought.
We arrived to a barn floating on a lake, greeted by the master of the house who was an enourmous lumberjack of a man in overalls; He would sell Granny the hat. I climbed up a narrow ladder into his home, the last step impossible to reach, he grabbed both my hands in his and said "you willing to go for a ride?" as he fell backwards onto a haybail, flinging me up-and-over his head, into his livingroom where I met his wife and children. They had a long dog. Like a weiner dog, but longer. Long fuzzy ears. My family followed behind me.
Granny pullled out her business card, which had a verse from the Lord's prayer printed on it (it was actually the prayer of St.Francis of Assisi), but-- several of the words were replaced with the word "Granny":
Lord make me a Granny of thy peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow Granny...
...For it is in giving that we are Granny
It is in Granny that we are pardoned,
It is in Granny of the self that we are Granny to eternal Granny.
Amen.
Then we all found ourselves singing hymns as a group; our hosts knew the words, and I didn't...trying to follow along. I woke up singing the final phrase of a hymn, very big voice, very church-like:
Spi-rit In A Bur-ger Place
Spi-rit In A Bur-ger Place
. . . . . .
So, at the risk of hitting the point over the head a little hard (?), I'm thinking yeah, BRING BACK MONICA LEWINSKY, and protection of the environment, and a strong economy, and civil rights, and abortion rights, and recycling, and media-consolidation-control, and our local firehouse, rent control, and... French fries.
