Two Dreams- One Of Them Prophetic

[poliphilo]

We've opened the bedroom window in honour of it being spring- a little prematurely because it was damn cold last night. As a way of compensating I
dreamed I was in Australia and looking up at the Southern Cross. My, but it was spectacular! I've always wanted to see the Southern Cross for real. I wonder if I ever shall.

Talking about dreams I had a distressing one the night before last where I threw a cat across the room and damaged its eye. In the morning I was looking at a set of photos by morrison_maiden and there was one I particularly liked of her cat sitting on the windowsill, hidden behind a pot-plant, with just one eye visible. I wrote a comment and after I'd placed it, it suddenly dawned on me- "O wow, that dream was an anticipation of this!"

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[butterscotch711.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we get Orion (I'm never sure where it is though - it's another one ppl try to find when drunk).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Three stars in a (more or less) straight line. That's Orion's "belt". It's the object by which I get my bearings. Trouble is it's only visible here during the winter months. I miss it when it's gone.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

i love to lie on the beach up at the cottage, at night. There are so many more stars visible than at home, it's so beautiful...

I try to ignore the crawly things that are also on the beach at night. And one thing I CAN find in the sky is Orion's belt.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Here we suffer from being at the edge of a brightly-lit metropolis and the skies are never really dark.

I remember lying on a hillside in the south of France, far from anywhere, on a perfectly clear night, about thirty years ago. O, but the stars were wonderful.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I saw a lunar eclipse (?) - where the earth passes between the sun and the moon - once, from the beach. It was very exciting, there was just a bit of a breeze so the lake was ruffled but not rough, and yes, lots of wonderful stars.

When I am old, I mean really old, I hope I can remember what it was like to look up and see all those stars.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It must be really nice to have a nearby beach to go and lie on.