Dream 2: Ridiculous Rationalization

We had two new rescue dogs who insisted on biting Duncan. Dan and I decided the parental thing to do would be to keep the unruly dogs because they were clearly in need. The dogs had come to us for help.

Our rationalization was that we chose to have Duncan. Most likely these were unplanned pregnancies. If we gave them up, they had no where else to go but down.

Dream 1: Sense of Future Home

Dan and I were gifted Jan and Michael's farm house and surrounding land making us feel lucky and loved like you imagine a well-cared for child feels on his or her best day.

To make the house our own we did some construction to the house. Opening up rooms...raising ceilings...hanging our own artwork. Allowing us the feeling that a firm security deposit was accepted. It was becoming part of our own self-made history and future.

We had land, animals, privacy, yet at the same time we had connections. A pond, growing food, lives, space for the creation of art to be imagined, made, admired. A sense of place, ourselves, needs outside of immediacy. This land in particular was brought on so purely by a relationship of love, it is startling and stunning.