Recent jots

Tuna was supposed to play guitar for a group of people but he got nervous and lay down on the floor looking sad and tired. I comforted him and reassured him he didn't have to play for those people.

Mom and dad's place of residence? Beautiful large conservatory with a big tree covered in cantaloupe sized pitcher plants and paphiopedilum blooms. I found one HUGE specimen that looked like a hybrid of the two. Red, green, white, purple-brown.

White house. I was told it had been moved off the property. From a distance the property did appear to be vacant of any structure. Gray mist hung over the earth, eerie and sort of boxy in shape, resembling a house. As I approached, a house started to appear slowly, detail by detail. It looked occupied but no one answered when I called out. Old house. Old belongings. Very interesting. View from windows was a city. A bay and the banks were busy with people and boats. Masses of buildings and bridges. The statue of liberty poked her bust and raised arm up out of the bay. Boats whizzed by. This was not New York. Where am I?

In the basement of an old house, I found a large photograph of a cabinet door. It was printed on very heavy cardstock and was warped with water damage. I turned it over and inspected it further and saw that it opened up into a three panel image of the full set of cabinets. It was a free standing unit like an island. Solid dark wood base with a chunky top that had so much wear it looked almost like a leather cushion with how rounded and soft the edges had become and was the color of an olivey emerald. I put the print down and looked around the basement. The cabinet was there. I immediately went to it and knelt down to open the doors. Inside was a set of copper barware. There was a sake carafe and drinking cups. The cups were unlike anything I'd ever seen, curved and molded into such a beautiful and otherworldly shape. The surface was etched with lines like that of a topographic map and seemed to make the curves even more lively and alien. I turned a piece over to look for a maker mark. An extremely detailed image of a demon with huge horns appeared. I turned another cup over to check again. The demon appeared and then started to become three dimensional, rising off the surface detail by detail, the face emerging, the horns elongating, a glimmer of soft yellow light illuminating the tips of the horns from the inside. I twisted the cup in a little circle to see the angles. It was so incredibly detailed, this tiny three dimensional hellish monster on this little intricate copper cup. I turned the cup rightside up and placed it on the island. Perfect sit. Where did this come from??

Halloween costume: take a length of thin leather cord, tie a knot in the end, insert it up your nose and bring it down through your mouth. It came with a lifestyle book about what it means to wear it and belong to a group who all do it together.

Ice skating rink. Tons of people playing hockey. I was just skating around in my sneakers. Left the rink to go outside. Lake surrounded by trees. Entered the woods and part of the lake, where water was running down a small a hill, looked like an oil painting. I went into the woods, snow on the ground, a dead eagle. The deeper I went the more everything turned into the painting. Orange leafed trees above. The water.