Couple Of Things

1.It was late afternoon and the sun was beating in from beneath the clouds- which were dropping a lot of rain on where I was standing- and the garden was straddled by one of the most perfect rainbow arches I've ever seen...

2. I dreamed I was in old East Berlin. I was asking this old woman who looked like the popular idea of a witch whether I should take a coach tour and she said I should take a walking tour with her friend who ran a walking tour business and I said but my wife's in a wheelchair and it looks like it's going to rain. Then I changed my mind because I liked the woman and felt- as a privileged westerner- I should be doing what I could for the local economy. East Berlin was really rather beautiful- and the old woman was living in a palatial appartment- but money was tight and the media was censored and, of course, nobody could leave...