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Dreams

6:21am CDT Sunday 23 September 2001

I remember two dreams from last night:

(dream 1 (4am-ish)

In some sort of halfway house or something where the kids were not being treated very well. There was a guy who died and was pulled out of his room on a stretcher and everyone was all sad, but then the guy stood up, "I'm not dead, I was just comatose," as he walked away.

We all cheered his instant recovery. Then I went into the halfway house which had broken windows and lots of nutty little rooms and twisty passages. Ryan McCarthy was there, and he wanted to get out, but wasn't able to but I was on a flying device, and in a mostly lucid dream; I could fly, but not perfectly well, and it was difficult to fly with Ryan also hanging on my flying surfboard type thing.

I've never had to use an object so that I could fly, but I visualized one for this dream so that Ryan would have something to hold on to.

We busted out of the wall from the second floor and were immediately in the air and flying pretty well away from the house, but then we were too low to get over the fence. I tried to swoop us both up, but Ryan's head got lodged between the fence and a tree growing next too it. He wasn't hurt, but just stuck. I climbed over the fence and Ryan got over as well, but then the bad lady came and was trying to bring us back. We ran and ran to get away.

I remember waking up from that dream with chills all over my body.

(dream 2: 7am-ish)

Driving on a highway and saw a sign that the road was going to be split in the middle, but there was no indication of which lane would end or how it was going to work. I was watching for the lane to end in the middle of the 4 lane, not knowing which of the middle two lanes would end, and so I changed lanes to the outside lane and suddenly I was stuck there by a small retaining wall, and there were hundreds of people in the lane! I was driving highway speeds and about to hit them when I jumped over the retaining wall and didn't hit anyone.

The highway was two stories above the ground and a truck driver had a huge inflatable ball like 10 feet across and he bounced it up from the ground onto the highway, and it bounced like all well-inflated balls should and bounced off the highway back onto the ground. He didn't notice this, and I tried to get his attention and explain that he should look for the ball behind him.

He noticed it and tried again. By this time I was on the ground watching. He bounced it up and a car or truck hit it and bounced it off the freeway onto the ground where it rolled in a lot of traffic. I cringed, thinking it would cause an accident, but my fears were forgotten when a van hit/bounced it off the road and over near us.

The ball was still inflated but only 2 feet across now. According to the guy it was to be put on a billboard, but the billboard company could just reinflate it; they would put a compressor and valve on it anyway to keep it at the correct pressure.

Shower

11:27am CDT Sunday 23 September 2001

When Wende and I first moved in, I applied silicon sealant along the corners of our shower. They have pretty well protected it for over a year, but as the tile has settled, in some places the gap has grown larger than what the silicon can cover. So I ripped out most of the old silicon today and will re-apply new tomorrow. Gotta get some masking tape to mask the area.

Good feeling to get this project done.

YRUU worship

7:33pm CDT Sunday 23 September 2001

Our local YRUU hosted an intergenerational worship tonight, which was well attended and well loved by the adults. This is the first one of a monthly series of worships they intend to do each second Sunday of the month, I think.

The theme centered on the flaming chalice, describing how it came to be the symbol of UUism. Then people were invited to speak a few words a light a candle or two on what the chalice means to them.

By the end of that part of the ceremony, all the candles were arranged in a shape of a flaming chalice. Nice. Someone took pictures; everyone expressed how wonderful they found the worship.

Great job, YRUU!