I dreamed I was walking through a quiet, shady town just after a flood. It was late afternoon. The summer sunlight glimmered greenly through drippy trees. Water covered the streets, over the curb, across the greenway and sidewalks, and partially across the debris-strewn lawns. I tread lightly along the plashy sidewalk, gently pressing a large, soft…
I awoke to find myself eyeball-to-eyeball with a Locust from the Fifth Trumpet of the Apocalypse. I sprang maybe four feet into the air above my bed, screaming silently so as not to wake my friends — I had caused them enough grief already that night. As I hit the mattress, I snatched up the…
“We can get out of here, you know. They’re never going to let us go, but I don’t think they can stop us either, if we’re determined.” About four months earlier, I was backpacking through a spectacular landscape. I was in a range of rust-red mountains, unimaginably tall and steep. Several thousand feet below, a…
A Wonder Of Feeling 