I had a dream last night.  I dreamt that I had a project due on the very first day of school and about an hour before I had to be at school I only had half of it done.  It was a poster board with a lot of small empty spaces with designs around them.  I finally decided I could paste candy into the spaces and then when I was done presenting it, I could pass it around for people to eat off of.  But I would have to do the pasting while driving to school.  Then I woke up…at around 11:00 am.  Did you know that you could make comments to these blogs?  There is a link to comment below each blog, and if you’d like to help me with my dreams, I had a very curious one the day after meeting Daniel Quinn, the weekend our little journey began.  I don’t remember too much, except that I was in a beautiful field and the colors were brilliant and ecstatic; greens, reds, yellows, blues, browns, all the shades.  The sun rose up over the hills and began to sing this really fun bouncy song.  And sure enough all the trees, the hills, the sky was sway/bouncing to the beat.  I was beaming gloriously up at the singing sun, never happier in my life, when all of a sudden, the world around me started to come apart in large pieces and there was a great light above me and I felt as though I were on an operating table and I could tell that there were people around me and a loud voice started to say to me “Don’t you want to see…” and I started screaming.  I woke up in a panic next to B and he tried to calm me, I told him about the dream and then I was awake until dawn.  I don’t know what to think, I’m not a dream interpreter, but it was so real and so amazingly bizarre that I wish I knew what it was telling me.

Anyway, we are in the DC area now, Leesburg, VA, to be exact and have been sleeping in a bed for the past week.  We were at Brad and Heather’s house in Alexandria, VA for a few days and I fell madly in love with them and decided to put them in a little box and carry them with me everywhere.  I got to have several really wonderful heart to hearts with Heather and am so happy to call her my new friend.  She works for NARAL and has a beautiful and (com)passionate heart.  Brad is so artistic and one of the friendliest people to have been born.  He has books from his childhood scattered here and there and his amazing photography is hung on the walls.  They made such delicious vegetarian meals, I only wish I could hire them full time to make me food.  They were such a joy to be around and so good for my soul, I can’t tell them thank you enough. 

Last weekend, Josie stayed with Heather and Brad while we went to a visitor’s weekend at the Heathcote Community.  We got there early Saturday and started off with a work party.  Brian and I helped to plant garlic with a very kind man named Charles.  We also helped put up some scaffolding and weeded another garden, which I found is like knitting to me, very meditative.  We then had a great vegetarian meal from their garden and went on a tour.  After the tour B and I took a little walk through the woods and ended up falling asleep curled up in a field just outside of the woods.  When we woke, we wandered back to the community and set up to spend the night in our tent.  It was frosting in the mornings, but I stubbornly wanted to know how cold we could handle it.  After dinner, we helped to clean up and then there was a dance free party.  It’s free-style-dance-how-ever-the-heck-you-want-and-screw-self-conciousness dancing.  It was a lot like what I did on my women’s retreat and I found it was a lot easier to do with 30 women than with a couple women and a few men.  But, it was still a great time.  So, we hunkered down in the tent, layered to the max and during the night I was so hot I had to shed layers, so it ended up working out really well.  We had breakfast the next morning and then took off for “home.” 

Now, we are at a new home, like I said earlier, in Leesburg, VA with our friends Jason and DeAnna.  We will be visiting another community this weekend and then we will be staying with my Uncle Ralph in Bowie, MD and actually visiting some museums in DC, like the new Native American one.  So, until next time, so long, farewell, aveidersein, good night, we hate to go…gooood byeeeeeeeeeeee!