Long Couple Of Weeks Ahead

The next thirteen weeks are going to be interesting. I have a reason to get up early some mornings during the week.

Things clearly change.

Visitor

I just had a visitor to my flat: someone I never thought I'd see again. She arrived to see what I described as "the flat of someone who was expecting never to entertain company again."

We had a good old jangle, and I feel a bit less down as a result. It was a mutual cheering up: she was as much in need of good cheer as I was.

So, then, a good, well-timed visit. :) Even trees rent by lightning may grow new fruit, after all. :)

Originally posted as a reply to lyny_wolf:-

As I said, this is a post I printed originally as a response to a post by lyny_wolf. Only this post has added spellchecking.

The response's title was "Dreams of Civilisation Collapsing or Collapsed."

I had a really bad dream, once. I wrote it down. There were a bunch of people stranded in a shopping mall, all of whom were from various minorities - Armenians, Poles, gays, black women and children, Irish people, A number of people from the Middle East - Jews, Muslims and Indians / Pakistanis, all thrown in together, desperate.

And I knew what they were running from. A slowly advancing marching column of uniformed Aryan fascists coming down the main thoroughfare like a column of soldier ants.

It was my job to lead all these people out the back door, unnoticed, before the jackboot column arrived. Even as I was herding everybody out to safety, I could hear the damned jackboots getting closer and closer, marching in lockstep.

There've been plenty of dreams like that. Britain as a fallen nation, now run along the lines of a nepotistic Banana Republic: or watching helplessly from the shoreline as a distant city gets nuked, watching as the sky turns a fiery red and a glowing yellow mushroom cloud rises in the distance.

Once, I was dreaming of driving a horse and buggy, would you believe, through cornfields out between the towns. All around were hills and mountains, and these were shielding me from the nukes that were dropping all around. Every few minutes, a new mushroom cloud would rise up on the horizon, and another city had gone.

And then one of them dropped right in front of us on the road ... and failed to detonate. Just sat there, with its nose cone half buried in the soft dirt of the track. Gave us enough time to get what felt like thirty, forty miles away before it went off: a detonation that brought buildings down all around us, but that somehow left the one nearest us almost intact, protecting us from the immediate blast.

Yet other times, I've had dreams where it's tornadoes, or a hole in space leading to some unknown dimension - and the government's rounding up all us dissidents and sending us through it as a "drafted exploratory force."

And one time, I dreamed that the Shadows from Babylon 5 just ... materialised in the airspace over the town. Right overhead, all black and menacing.

You get used to having scary dreams like these. Back in the day, Pharaohs would sit up and take notice if you held forth with dreams like these.

Lyrics To Go To Bed With

These are lyrics from "Touch to Remember," composed by Jean Michel Jarre:-

I. Am.
You. Are.

Why?

Touch. And Remember You.


I. Talk.
You. Talk.

Why?

Touch. And Remember You.


I. Am.
You. Are.

You.
Are.
Warm.

Why?

Are.
You.
An Angel?


Touch. And Remember You.
Touch. And Remember You.

Touch. And Remember You.


I. See.
You. See.

Why?

Touch. And Remember You.


I. Touch. You.

I.

Remember You.


I. Touch. You. I. Remember You.


I.



Remember You.

What Tarot Card Are You?

You are The Magician

Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.

Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing,
you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.

The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the sleight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.

What Tarot Card are You?
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