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Naps, High Waves & Turtles
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The first nap, I dream that people have let themselves into my place while I'm having a nap and babysitting the kids. My kids, younger, and these people, I don't know, friends of a friend maybe, and I should get up and talk to them only I'm trying to have a nap. The lake, it's got huge waves today, towering 20, 30 feet in the air, I can see them below the deck, the water's heavy, but not rough, the waves aren't breaking, there are no whitecaps, merely large heavy waves reaching up into the darkening sky...
The people, eventually they leave, then there is another group that let themselves in, they're waiting for a bus, I know them, took them on a prospecting tour of the Kootenays, friends of Marks, still, I'm trying to nap, and eventually they too leave...
And it's time to get up, and I dreamed that I was trying to nap...
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That I'm somewhere near Creston, the marshy plains before ascending the Kootenay Pass, there are signs explaining the Turtles, the area, I have the urge to go prospecting, above the marshes is a mountain that I recognize from other dreams, with tea-huts and caves and crystals and gold...
But for now I'm reading the signs at the foot of the marsh, reading about the wildlife and first discovery of the area by John from Halifax and I'm wondering if it's the same John from Halifax I knew some 30 years ago back in London....
Now my desk, wooden, small oak desk like you see in every second hand store, it's on fire, there's a cold blue fire flickering around it's a foot on the base, I'm wondering if I've kept any liquor in the drawer that might have started this, trying to put it out...
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And so, fragments of dreams poorly recalled and that make little sense.
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The first, a 130,000 year old Neanderthal Skull found in a sinkhole in Italy.
The second...well, look at it and figure it out. You could write a Novel on that subject.
2020 Films to See
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Looking back at the best films of 2020 there were a few that I'd seen, and quite a few I'd never heard of.
That's fine, I could use the inspiration, something to look forward to.
In no particular order:
EMA - YouTube Trailer
Dick Johnson is Dead - YouTube Trailer
David Byrne's American Utopia - YouTube Trailer
Nomadland - YouTube Trailer
Never Rarely Sometimes Always - YouTube Trailer
And, finally - one - or rather, 3, it's apparently a trilogy I've never even heard of but for some reason has great appeal:
Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow - Episode Three - The Absent Destinations of David Prime - All three trailers (and films) can be watched on his website: http://bitterfilms.com/
So that's it. Some cultural fodder to absorb before once again I find myself living out the back of my jeep!
Restless in Paradise
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In the perfect location, situation, to do all things, instead finding myself increasingly anxious and bored.
There is no reason to be bored - I've much to do, but as much as I enjoy solitude it needs to be somewhat balanced with society.
Society, at the moment and for the past year, has been out of the question, and Pandemic Fatigue is settling well in.
The restaurant, while I'd prefer to finish things up and never return, at least provides some time away from myself, the society of others (and I know Ken must be missing my company...!), and the reassurance that for a time - worst come to worst, my finances can be restored.
But rumor has it that the restaurant - despite March projections - may NOT be finally reopening, there are obstacles, and - it might be time to start planning for the new backup plan.
In short, paradise is seldom what it's cut out to be...
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