"…Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves just floating, floating….refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current; this is what we call the floating world…” Asai Ryoi, in Ukiyo Monogatari (Tales of the Floating World, 1661)
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Open The Window And Let The Monkeys Out
Let's start the day with a dream. I went to sleep early last night, around 8:00 PM, and slept fairly soundly through the night. I woke up this morning from a dream. In the dream TR and I were sharing a house somewhere. In the garage was a classic wooden speed boat, a beautiful piece of work. I was in the garage and I could smell something shorting out, so I was investigating and discovered that some of the wires in the boat were shorting out because the ignition was turned on. Apparently, it had been turned on by the monkey that lived in the garage. It was a little monkey, maybe slightly larger then a spider monkey, so I don't know what the actual breed was. I turned the ignition off and pulled the burning wires. The monkey got very upset at me, ran madly around the garage, and then found a way out and took off. Of course, I instantly knew that I was in a dream - TR has a no wild animals in the house rule, so I knew, even as I was in the midst of the dream, that there was no way she would have a monkey in the garage. Now, when I have a strange dream like that I really wonder - what the heck is my subconscious trying to tell me? Open the window and let the monkeys out? That would actually be a good, strange, thing to put on a t-shirt.
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