5
August 2014
I
Had A Dream
I
closed my eyes and fell asleep. After the sandman sprinkled sleep
into my eyes I had a dozen dreams all meshed up into one. I rode my
bike swiftly out of my garage and quickly up a mountain. I pushed and
pushed until my legs were on fire. With a blaze growing up my body I
reached the top and jumped with my arms spread wide. The fire broke
and turned into wings. Glorious white wings that took me soaring high
into the sky. I dipped in and out of clouds, racing the sun to the
starry night. Twinkling like angel kisses off the ocean below me, the
stars beckoned me to take a dive in the calm waves. I fluttered my
wings and held them close to my body. I struck the water like a hot
blade through butter. As I slid slower through the water, my wings
morphed into a tail and dolphins met me at my side. We sped through
the dark sea with only the moon as the guide passing jellyfish and
all the beasts in Poseidon's waters. We finally broke through the
water with such grace and excitement that our bodies shook with joy.
I swam towards the shore where white, glittering sands and feathering
palm trees invited me to come. My legs returned and I walked along
the smooth beach without a care in the world. I heard a voice that
called out behind me it asked me who I am. It was a question I tried
to answer but I could not find the words. The voice asked me what I
truly wanted in life and the world began to spin around me.
Everything was becoming one and I shuddered with fear. I swirled
around my changing perspective until all came to a silent calm. The
voice was behind me once again and told me to go after what I wanted
in life and to stop being so afraid so I ran. I ran in the silent
calm until I could no longer breath. With a quick shake I woke up
still panting from my flight. I woke up from that dream inspired to
fully live my life.
6
August 2014
The
Bug
A
little girl came home from school sick and was very sad. She loved
school and her friends but her tummy was very unhappy. She sat in the
car for the ride home and was thinking about what the school nurse
had said.
“You
must have the bug that everyone is getting.”
A
bug? She did not eat any bugs. She had not touched any bugs. She
didn't see anyone else with bugs. Where had this bug come from that
she somehow caught? Her stomach was so upset so she must have eaten
it, now this bug was traveling in her belly. She decided the bug must
be in a speed boat just cruising around making her tummy have waves
of aches. She did not know what to do.
“Mommy,
why is there a bug in me?” she inquired.
“That's
what happens when you are sick honey,”
“How
do I make it go away?”
“Well
you have to go home and rest and drink so juice.”
The
little girl was very interested in this. She wondered what the juice
and rest would do to make the bug go away. The juice would probably
rain down and make the speed boat stop working so she gladly drank
her yummy orange juice. Next she began to rest. She assumed that the
rest would make the bug so bored it would just go away. Eventually,
the little girl fell asleep as she was thinking about the bug being
bored. The next morning she woke up and the little girl felt so much
better.
“Mommy!
Did my bug go away?”
“It
looks that way,” smiled her mommy as she helped the little girl get
dressed.
The
little girl was amazed at this discovery. She went to school and told
all her friends about the tale of the bug that no longer lived in her
tummy.
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