Sweet Reason
Dreaming again and what a dream! I was visiting Dad in New Kensington and it was time for me to leave for home. I decided that I was too sleepy to drive home so I would walk.
I realized that this would mean that I would leave the car there and go home without it and my husband would not like that very much. It would also mean that we'd have to do without a car until we went back to get it. But that didn't bother me and I set out to walk home. 130 miles!
I knew not to tell my dad what I was doing because he'd never have approved or let me begin this venture.
I had Desy with me. We got started and it was easy going at first. However, as we walked, I kept thinking over what I was doing, and whether it would be the best thing for me to do. I didn't have Desy on a lead and I was a little concerned about her getting out in traffic, and yet she didn't play a very big role in this dream.
My friend Eleanor was ahead of me somewhere and I found that she'd dropped a dahlia root along the way. I picked it up and put it in my pocket. A little farther along I found a dollar bill and decided to leave it lay. Then there was another and I took this one and it was really a $10 bill and then another $1. I zipped this into my jacket pocket and wondered who I would give it to because I really didn't need any money. But I planned to keep the dahlia root and plant it next spring. Awake, I know I would have given Eleanor her dahlia!
And then sweet reason began to set in. I wasn't as far as Stewart School yet and I was beginning to get tired. There was no way I could get home before dark and I would be even more tired, cold and hungry before long. I would have to go back and get the car even though I did hate the thought of driving 130 miles. And then I woke up, feeling tired and wondering where sweet reason had gone when I had set out on my impossible journey!
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