DouglasFir of Simmer
Sep. 4th, 2017 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoThis virus is nasty and feels as if it will never go away. I slept a LOT last night, but still don't feel normal today. The Sparrowhawk had to take a nap. It's crazy. I hope the post-viral fatigue I had earlier this year isn't going to come back. Ugh. We sat by the lake for awhile, until it started to drizzle, ahead of the oncoming cold front.
Yesterday an unwelcome message from the past showed up. I have to be cryptic about it because it involves family matters, but it was quite upsetting--things we thought were finished cropping up again. I was pretty agitated. After consulting the siblings, three out of four of us seem to have reached consensus that the best thing to do is say "no thank you" and walk away. I'm still waiting to hear from sib #4. I really hope they will agree. If they don't, they'll have to deal with it themselves. I already have half the family history in my attic, and I don't want any more, whether it be material or symbolic.
I wonder if there is such a thing as a memory storm. Sometimes there are days when every breath of wind or flicker of light triggers a flash of recall, and the world is like walking through a double exposure with scraps of the past flickering and fluttering around me like falling leaves.
I slept for such a long time last night that I had time, in the dream world, to rescue an elk calf that was stuck in a snowy ravine. In the dream, I was visiting the Nonesuch, and we dragged the elk up to safety together--after I warned him that if it was full grown, I couldn't guarantee that I'd be able to carry it! I guess we were lucky that it was still young. I'm not quite superhuman, even in my dreams. I wish I'd sleep long enough to dream of a cure for the common cold, though this cold seems pretty damn UNcommon. It might take dream magic to get rid of it.
Yesterday an unwelcome message from the past showed up. I have to be cryptic about it because it involves family matters, but it was quite upsetting--things we thought were finished cropping up again. I was pretty agitated. After consulting the siblings, three out of four of us seem to have reached consensus that the best thing to do is say "no thank you" and walk away. I'm still waiting to hear from sib #4. I really hope they will agree. If they don't, they'll have to deal with it themselves. I already have half the family history in my attic, and I don't want any more, whether it be material or symbolic.
I wonder if there is such a thing as a memory storm. Sometimes there are days when every breath of wind or flicker of light triggers a flash of recall, and the world is like walking through a double exposure with scraps of the past flickering and fluttering around me like falling leaves.
I slept for such a long time last night that I had time, in the dream world, to rescue an elk calf that was stuck in a snowy ravine. In the dream, I was visiting the Nonesuch, and we dragged the elk up to safety together--after I warned him that if it was full grown, I couldn't guarantee that I'd be able to carry it! I guess we were lucky that it was still young. I'm not quite superhuman, even in my dreams. I wish I'd sleep long enough to dream of a cure for the common cold, though this cold seems pretty damn UNcommon. It might take dream magic to get rid of it.
memory storm is definitely a thing
Date: 2017-09-05 04:30 am (UTC)