The Grey Fox Tho

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From an old dream journal (15 Aug 2008). Was living in Buffalo at the time.

I had a curious dream last night: the first night I slept without either cold medication or sleeping assistance all week. It was the sort of dream that plays in one long story line – even though I woke up in the middle of it!

In the dream I was in a Western Rite Orthodox parish. It was one of those things you “know” rather than see. I “knew” I was in a WR parish. It was filled with youth and young adults – as if on an overnight retreat. In the dream I thought it rather like “Night Watch” at the Cathedral of St John the Divine.

But they were worshipping rather Novus Ordo – meditative silences, etc – MY WR readers will make it clear now that I was dreaming. Further, they were singing in a very traditional style that is not Orthodox or WR at all.

And the guy I was sitting next to (he seemed a friend) got up and walked out and I – and some of the youth – followed along.

As we were sitting outside talking, watching water flow along, there was a “plop” and I remembered that there were alligators in the water. So I pulled my feet back from the water’s edge. In doing so, I dislodged one of my sneakers. The pair I was wearing had rainbow shoelaces. A large snake surfaced from the water at that point and took the sneaker with it under the water… and off to the right, into a sort of culvert under a highway. I ran up on to the highway and looked into the culvert where the snake had dropped the sneaker. And two squirrels? badgers? water rats? were fighting over the sneaker. I yelled and my voice echoed in the culvert and from out of the culvert came MANY animals: birds, rodents, and a large grey fox with very poofy fur.