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Subject: Dream: "And a Child Shall Lead Them" by Nutcracker
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:20:33 EDT
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B. and I were in Austin, TX. We were rummaging through several shops, two in
particular. We had gone into the first shop. I hate shopping as my feet get
sore when I have to stand still for very long; I need to keep moving.
Invariably, I always run circles around B., waiting for him to ‘move on’.
He had wandered off and I had circled the store (three times), looking for
him. I finally came to a stop in front of the checkout counter and was
staring off into space when the check out girl asked if she could help me. I
said, “no.” As I was about to walk away, she mentioned that she couldn’t
take care of the incorrect Blockbuster Video billing on our hotel bill. I
told her that was ok, that I would contact Blockbuster myself when I got
home. They had overcharged us by fifty cents for a rental. I then thought
to myself, who goes on vacation and rents videos? I can’t find B. anywhere
in the store and I come to a staircase. This shop has two floors. I debate
going up, as I know there is nothing up there of interest to me (I have a
sense of deja vu), yet I proceed to climb the stairs anyway. As I had
figured, there is nothing here worth looking at. I walked to the other side
of the room and came to the exit. There are three doors. I choose to exit
via the middle one. The doors are twice as wide as a normal door and
one-fourth shorter and are made of wood and steel. I open it and find that I
now have to jump down 4-5 feet to the corridor. I look to my left and see
that the first door has steps leading down to the corridor. But, I’m already
here and have this door open, so I jump. Now for some reason, I’m walking
around carrying a medium sized container of stew; pasta/chicken with homemade
bread crumbs (crouton size). I open a door to enter the next shop, only to
find it’s the kitchen to a restaurant. There is a counter stopping me from
passing through. One of the chefs invites me to pass, but I have to crawl
beneath the counter to get to the other side. He then pours a ladle of
spaghetti sauce over my stew and shows me to the front door. He looks a tad
upset as I leave. Perhaps he was expecting me to offer him a taste? Now
I’ve come to the second shop. I wander through the shop, but B. isn’t here
either. I leave the store and am now outside. Two of the female clerks are
outside and I ask them for directions (I don’t recall to where). One girl is
tall with sandy blonde hair and the other short with brown hair. The taller
girl points to the east, the shorter girl to the west. Then the taller girl
changes her mind and points north and says that is the way I should go. I
look in the direction she’s pointing and it’s a straight uphill climb. Just
thinking about it exhausts me. I start climbing. About one third of the way
up, there are three trees in my path. Their roots are exposed and I find
myself having to step between the roots. But in a way, that’s a good thing,
as I am able to get a better foothold and this invigorates me. Once I get
past the trees, the path turns to dirt. I make it to the top and the path
leads me to the door of a house. As I stand on the threshold, I hear someone
coming and step away, to the right of the door. A young girl comes out. She
knows where I want to go and says she will lead me. All I have to do is
follow her. I guess a lot of people come to the door instead of staying on
the path to the right of the door. The phrase, "And a child shall lead
them," pops into my mind. The girl is about six feet ahead of me when I call
out to her to stop. Just to the right of her, I spy something. “There’s a
rattlesnake. Step away from it, slowly,” I call out. The snake was coiled
up, napping. The girl bent down and picked it up. She had no fear of it, in
fact, seemed delighted to find it. I hadn’t realized it before, but she
already had another snake wrapped around her neck. It was a large snake,
like a boa constrictor. She took the two snakes in her hands and flung them
to the right of her, into a pile of more snakes. The area was fenced off, as
if meant to keep the snakes inside. Then we continued on our way, up the
dirt path which was surrounded by trees on either side. Walking uphill
again, all you could see were trees and sky. (4/26/00)
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