Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Ribbons
This morning my sister and I were trying to put together a treehouse of sorts, a hideaway. Not far off from our chosen tree was a building, seemingly a hospital, but with medical practices I am not familiar with at all... I remember being in the elevator with maybe 3 other people (the woman beside me had a baby, we were trying to find out what was wrong with him) including a doctor and another patient... there was a small lever on the control panel, I tried moving flipping it upwards, but rather than helping the elevator up the shaft, the entire floor of the elevator skewed- it slanted dramatically and the two women on the far side of the elevator slid against the wall, and I had to keep myself from sliding down with them. I flipped the switch again and all was well... In the search for wood to construct our treehouse (which, I was convinced, also needed to be a sort of rocketship) we found an old picture with a thick wooden frame. We recognized the picture as one of our late grandpa's paintings and when we removed the frame, three long ribbons of pink, blue and purple fell out of the frame, as well as 3 shorter ribbons of the same color. She held the long ones and I held the shorter... as I began to wake up I heard him say " I trust that you have each found your respective ribbons and will keep them with you." I started crying in the dream and one cheek was even wet when I awoke...