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January 13, 2024

Stream of Consciousness and Dreaming

Filed under: Dreaming,Friends,Memories — yvensong @ 11:50 pm
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Some of my dreams are very up close and personal. The intimacy expressed in those dreams used to be the norm in my life. Now, it’s barely existent. I miss the intimacy. I miss the long conversations that lasted into the wee hours of the morning. I miss the people puddles, with arms and legs dangling over one another while watching a movie. I know that during that time period, the people I knew were more courageous and trusting. The people I know now have grown fearful and less trusting of people in general. And some, including me, have grown fearful of accidentally stepping past an unspoken boundary, or fearful of having a touch misinterpreted as more than a simple touch.

I think that I will close up this bit of #SoC writing, as I did not expect this to go in this direction. I planned on playing with dreams, weaving words with the images that fill my head every night. I pictured colorful rainbows dancing across the page, not reminiscing about days gone by.

This was in response to the prompt for #JusJoJan the 13th and Stream of Consciousness Saturday

January 6, 2024

How Bean Day Got Away From Me

Filed under: Dreaming,Friends,Uncategorized,Writing — yvensong @ 11:16 pm
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Your prompt for #JusJoJan the 6th and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “just do it.” Use the phrase “just do it” somewhere in your post, or write a post in the spirit of the phrase. Enjoy!

Just do what? IT. What is IT? If you don’t know, I don’t know if I can explain it to you.

Yeah, yeah. That has been part of my issue over the past year. What is the “IT” that wants doing? Writing? Painting? Exploring the city? Exploring the outdoors? Sitting by a lake? Stare at the stars? Count craters on the moon? Ride a unicorn? Or maybe a Pegasus? (That would cover both my love of horses and my desire to fly.) Grow wings? Or a tail? (I had hoped for either/or both wings and a tail when I got my COVID vax. I was promised some kind of mutation.)

I’ve had a full day, today. Filled with sharing the adventures of the ninth Doctor and Rose as they traveled through space and time with friends, one of which is a borderline Doctor Who virgin. Filled with the smells and taste of a wide variety of food. Filled with laughter, conversation, and hugs. Filled with the music of Abney Park, Steam Powered Giraffe, Mary Crowell, and so many others. Therefore, I’m sleepy, and this query will have to be put off for another day.

January 3, 2024

Festival of Sleep Day

Filed under: Dreaming — yvensong @ 11:20 pm
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Five 8-sided dice roll across the table. They total thirty-nine. I await for sleep to befall me. Nothing. Not even a tickle.

The Roman winged-god Somnus, is nowhere to be found and is probably in a deep slumber upon his downy-soft, black couch. I plead to Greek god Hypnos. He does not answer me. I am not a Greek god or goddess, so why should he?

I am too old for the Sandman to visit me, which may be for the best. Instead of the more benevolent Hans Christian Andersen version of Ole-Luke-Oie, I could be visited by the French Canadian Bonhomme Sept Heures or Hoffman’s Der Sandmann. I would prefer not to be stuffed into a bag or to have my eyes taken from me. No thank you.

Now that I have given you readers a clue as to how I spent the Festival of Sleep day, please share how you spent yours.

September 14, 2020

Ocean Dreams

Filed under: Dreaming,Oceans,Pandemic — yvensong @ 6:05 am
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Pacific City, OR

I want to go on a road trip. I want to see blue skies and even bluer waters. I want to hear the ocean waves crashing upon a sandy shoreline. I want to squish sand between my toes and have that familiar salty smell assault me. I want to feel the sun’s warmth caressing my body and I want to see the moon’s glow upon the water.

This year, this desire must be quieted, at least for awhile. A virus is racing through human kind and, simultaneously, fires rage through the west coast. The enormity of the pandemic and of the fires are difficult to fully comprehend, but to ignore either would be foolish and disrespectful. Lives have ended. People and animals are suffering.

Instead, I will listen to seals bark and seagulls squawk and close my eyes and listen to the ocean waves on Netflix. I will continue to knit hats and scarves to donate to those in need. I will find ways to celebrate those brave women and men who risk their lives every day to fight those raging fires. And, maybe, next year, I will visit the ocean.

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