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and i have no idea what this post is going to look like?????   the pic….it's completely odd

and it RAINED.   RAINED.   like Winter Rain.   SO NOT how it goes.   

the pic….i was sitting quietly at Jude's House at Feel Free.  at the Zone and having thoughts and feelings about PAPER and no longer having PAPERS,  having left them behind in New Mex but wanting to see

paper touching cloth

and suddenly i thought of the shopping bags….i have shopping bags from Lakeside Grocery

so them and Inktense pencils and just nothing in particular but just wanting to See something happen and not a lot did,  but something did and i keep looking at it

and have tried over and over today to post this pic and it's strange and wierd…half of what it ordinarily might be and for NO REASON

and i dreamed that Dee,  Dee Mallon  Pattern and Outrage was visiting me and i lived in a small shed kind of thing,  like Small,  half the size of this little tin house and she was across the table there from me,  working on a collage i think…working on something and i kept trying to figure out how to make things a little ok…there were no windows only a sky light that was a window in a frame stuck in the ceiling,  the only light,  and she didn't have anything to say and kept just glancing up at me over her reading glasses,  and i kept muddling along and said…OH….i haven't offered you any food!   i have onions and she said she washed onions with soap and water and i said oh!,  not me and she got up and went…went like being 2 ft maybe,  went to where i kept my food in an apartment sized dishwasher and pulled out a cutting board and it was covered with fruit flies and her eyebrows went up but she didn't say anything and then there was noise at the door where i had a metal step ladder propped against and i moved it and opened the door to find 3 men standing there with gas company uniforms on but not really gas company people,  and only one had an N95 mask and he was asian and had a lisp and when i said….What Can I Do For You?,  he said things but i couldn't understand all the words,  there was no context,  and one of the other ones repeated what he had said and i said that i couldn't really do anything for them because my fiend Dee was visiting from Massachusetts and i thought oh cripe,  fruit flies and now this,   and we really needed to get to the grocery store…

Thank you Dee.  I love you.

ok,  going to go hit publish and see what shows up here.

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22 responses to “a strange day”

  1. Nancy Avatar

    Grace~ Such an interesting and detailed dream! The instant before I opened this post, I saw that NoCal had rain and said so aloud to J.
    We’re getting heat 90+ degrees. Love the use of a bag.

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  2. jude Avatar

    i love brown paper, the store nearby switched to paper bags when they deliver. I am happy to see your paper and cloth and story here today.

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  3. Liz A Avatar

    my dreams have been far too “real” of late … even upon waking, my mind insists on continuing with them

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  4. CatherinE Avatar

    Your dream story made me laugh. I think I know the feeling. One thing after another, and some people wash things that I don’t 🙂

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  5. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I love how even in our sleep we connect .. the details of your time with Dee is so cute and funny. Big thanks for taking the time to share. Trilled reading about the rain ..

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  6. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    There’s something about plain old brown paper and its ISness–cheap, sturdy, reliable and versatile…doesn’t complain if you cut it up or crumple it in your hands.

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  7. dee Avatar

    Wild dream. Flies, onions, metal step ladder … last night I dreamt I was teaching a class on breathing. I was wearing a striped tunic with tie dye circles right where my boobs are but it was normal. “Notice the rise and fall of the chest,” I said.
    Washing onions? With soap? I’m embarrassed to admit I barely rinse my veggies. Anyway, thanks for sharing. Love back. If you’re ever in the mood for an envelope of paper, let me know.

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  8. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Wow. Same here.

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  9. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    That’s hilarious, Dee!

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  10. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Dreams. I have always had vivid dreams, and I remember them. Once, when I was 17 at college, I woke up crying from a dream that saddened me so much that I didn’t get up to go to my early class. I began having nightmares in March. I had to stop watching the news, even though the nightmares weren’t about the news. They stopped.
    I find your dream with Dee interesting. Familiar, in a way.
    I now wrap every gift in an inside out brown bag with a pretty ribbon. Has anyone here tried wetting and wrinkling and drying brown paper bags?
    How is Sunny Ray’s leg?
    How is Sunny Ray’s leg?

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  11. Saskia Avatar

    what a dream, love brown paper

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  12. CatherinE Avatar

    I made a journal once from wet/wrinkled/dried brown paper. It’s one of my favorite handmade books and I’d like to make another. A few rips occurred – have to handle the paper very carefully while wet. I made a blog post about it here: https://www.gemtactics.net/wordpress/?p=8444

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  13. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    TY for the link. The only weak part of a brown grocery bag is its handles!

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s Friday, the 10th….this seems another lifetime ago

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    don’t know about if it’s story

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    i used to be interested in Lucid Dreaming. Not anymore

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    it was great. Dee was Great.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s the 10th now. 100 degrees today.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    i want to soak it and see what happens

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    you were just so absolutely Great…could not have been more perfect in your non judgemental ness….and i could be ok in
    my chaos because of that
    it was all just no big deal
    and thank you, but nope….the paper…can’t.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee…will go look!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    dreams have a Life of their own

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