Dream

Posted on May 26, 2006 in Dreams

I’m driving from San Bernardino to my home in Orange County. There’s some kind of storm or another natural disaster blocking the direct route, so I resolve to get there by heading towards San Diego and then cutting across the mountains via the Rattlesnake Highway. But as soon as I do, there’s trouble. Mud flows across the road. Tanks park along the side. Four inch long pipes sticking out of the pavement replace the speed bumps. I hit one.

Another driver calls to me to say that I will be all right. A woman makes me and the other drivers pull over to the side of the road. All of this has been arranged so that I can speak. What about? What is in my heart, I gather. So I feel a sermon coming out about the need for us to forget the coarse divisions and unite once more, to be a singular people.