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To dream a new dream ... probably Lewis didn't intend this literally, but I'm taking it that way anyway.
I have a dream stuck in my head from, geez, almost ten years ago. The dream started and ended somewhere in the middle as dreams (and life) seem so often to do. I am praying for closure on that dream. It's just a dream you might think. To me it is more, a metaphor.
I have an idiosyncratic need for closure. Most of the time I'd say that's a good thing, it comes in the diligence basket, and I'm diligence personified. On this, I have wished to "just let it go" but have been unable to comply with my better instincts. So, there's that. Dream closure would rock.
Dream closure? Yeah, it counts.
I stopped remembering my dreams starting in 2015. I don't know what makes someone, usually able to recall large parts of dreams routinely able to visualize and recount them, suddenly unable to do so. I'm just guessing it's chronic fatigue or stress (which would be companions). But, you know what? Get news - I have arrived at a less stressful, I'd characterize it as idyllic, time in my life.
I know the world is a mess, but my finger doesn't fit the hole in the dam.
I'm actively trying to enjoy the good around me.
Why not?
That to note - now that I'm all chill, I expect to start dreaming and remembering those dreams again.
And, I did dream a little dream last night.
My niece was sitting behind me on otherwise empty bleachers and she leaned forward to whisper something funny (I don't remember what) in my ear. It tickled my ear. I laughed because it was funny, I laughed louder and longer because it also tickled. It was the sort of laugh that curls one up in mirth.
I'd like to complete "an old dream", short of that, a new dream might chase the old one away. Closure either way I hope ... .
"Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle." -Szymborska
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May God bless all your dreams, of all sorts, and keep them sweet.
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