told me that as long as that tree lived (paraphrasing, so would America).
Telperion of Valinor.
p.s. You are an excellent writer. Do more.
Merry Christmas!
(You filthy animals... :)
Depending on my energy level, I may post something more fancy later. Meanwhile, I have a small, and possibly funny story to tell.
You see, it all started when I went to sleep last night, or sometime thereafter. I don’t often have very memorable dreams, and when I do, well, they tend to be rather memorable. I may have written about them a time or two before.
So, last night, I had my usual Advil PM and blood pressure medication (promise!) and settled my brain for a reasonably long winter’s nap, when ...
Sometime later, I began to dream, and in this dream(s), first, my phone crapped out and my (gone for many years) parents got me a crummy flip phone as a replacement. Silly, but this figures into the plot later.
Eventually, my dream turned to the backwoods of Tennessee, where I went to visit an old friend and was told by his wife to meet up with him at the local establishment of refreshment (ahem). Said friend turned out to be Richard Petty, who asked me if I was any good at racing cars. Sadly, I had to admit that I get a bit nervous over 110MPH. But the interesting thing was that evening was approaching and sunset was looking nice, so we went out back, and had a look at the sunset.
As the sun was setting, dark clouds began to obscure it, but that’s not the important part All the while this was happening, the sun was silhouetted behind a ‘mountain’, and the mountain just happened to have on it the largest tree you ever did see. As in, the top of it was lost in the distance. It was truly a spectacular sight.
I really wished I could take a picture of it, but alas, crummy flip phone.
Richard (whom I have never met, and am not even really a fan of, but that’s another matter) turned to me and told me that as long as that tree lived (paraphrasing, so would America). And with that, the visit, and day ended, and ...
The next day, I was out at the lake, enjoying fun outdoor recreational activities (R/C stuff) with a group of friends, some of whom are no longer with us. (No race car drivers, promise!) A good time was being had by all when the sky began to look ominous and dark. We looked up, and before our eyes, the clouds began to move in ways that clouds shouldn’t move, and became all sorts of colors and patterns and swirls.
Then, from out of those colors and patterns emerged ... creatures of many shapes and sizes. Ethereal creatures, some skeletal, some fantastic, some phantasmagoric. It was like something out of a Ghibli film. Icthyosaurs, thisosaurs, thatosaurs, nautilii, whatnot all traveling in a stream across the sky, weaving in and out of formation, from the West, to the East, as if to a battle. One of the creatures headed straight towards us and morphed into a large ball with mushroom shaped spikes coming from all around it (aka like a certain virus). After seemingly considering us for a moment, it then flew away to rejoin its ‘friends’ in the eastward migration.
It was at this point I was really, really wishing I had my phone with a working camera, or that someone else was taking pictures, because, yeah, man. Trippy stuff. I said to the group, “I sure hope someone is taking a picture of this.”
Then a voice spoke, of a troubling time to come, “After Prince Trump dies”. Oh, my. And more stuff, including (I think from one of the travelers), “They’ll find us when the divers cross the Hudson River.”
Hmm...
Anyway, in the meantime, I had decided that I had to get away from this, so I had gotten in my car to drive away, but ended up stunned behind the wheel as the voice kept speaking and the car cruised backward (under ? control) until it came to a stop at the side of a barn a couple of miles away.
At which point, one of my friends called, and asked where I had gone off to, and what was that all about.
I told him, “Hold on, things are about to get bumpy.”
Then I woke up, 5 minutes before my alarm was set to go off.
So, what does this mean? Probably nothing, maybe everything.
Probably what it really means is that I need to cut down on the pizza (kidding, had spaghetti for dinner). That, and probably that I’ve been spending too much time reading these dang threads.
Either that, or perhaps it means that we should start praying like we’ve never prayed before.
I will leave it to the reader to consider which they think is more appropriate.
Meanwhile, once again, Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Q night.
:)
Is this like a good news\bad news dream?
Good news, it’s not another Freeper dream about bagster.
Bad news, it wasn’t small.
Merry Christmas :)
told me that as long as that tree lived (paraphrasing, so would America).
Telperion of Valinor.
p.s. You are an excellent writer. Do more.
...but never fear...
...the winged elephants appear (looking very much like angels) and drive Misfortune away.
Loved that book and the happy ending although the depiction of Misfortune was fairly startling to a young mind.
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I will take a crack at part of it. Dreams can be very vivid, so the lack of a good camera part explains that you realize you would have a hard time describing it. The mighty tree is America as implied, and sadly one day it will fall. A calm beautiful inspiring sunset, signifying peace and safety. The next day during an enjoyable time, tumultuous confusing clouds appear, the storm. In the story you see mighty huge strange creatures, demons, they are real. One of them is Covid, demonically inspired plague. They threatened you but somehow you were protected. You will be protected during the coming storm as Trump said, but realize it is truly a battle against the demonic forces. Headed East probably means Europe disaster after failing in US. The spirit warning you that when Trump dies all hell will break lose, I believe that. The next part indicates that they fear they might die in the river and have to be found by divers. The next part you try to get away but you have no control and are taking somewhere you have no control over, that is where we are going, we don't have control of certain things, they are unavoidable. You accurately warn your friend that things are going to be rough.
So this is not just blowing steam my friend. God speaks in symbols, he really does warn us!