Desert Messenger

10 www.DesertMessenger.com September 6, 2017 Traveling with Gypsy Jane by Jane Finley (1936-2017) Dream on... 8/21/06 Lincoln City, Oregon THRIFT STORE Benefitting the La Paz County Animal Shelter in Parker Supported by your generous donations! 455 E. Main St. Quartzsite Open Tues. thru Sat. 9-3 928-927-4223 Quartzsite Beauty Salon Perms, Colors, Haircuts. Men & Women HOURS 9-5 Monday thru Saturday Walk Ins Welcome! 250 E. Main Street Quartzsite, AZ 928-927-6664 Poems from the Road ADOT seeks info Three of us were standing on a high log -- a woman on my left and some- one on my right. Snakes began to ap- pear below us. Shocked, we called for help. Someone came and took care of the snakes, in one way or another. While we were still standing on the log, a huge bug about the size of a hummingbird, landed on the woman to my left -- right on top of her head. She collapsed and died! I remember thinking, "Why wasn't it me?" (I often think about how I continue to survive happily in spite of it all.) After all the formalities had been taken care of at the offi ce, and I started to leave, the woman in charge stopped me. "You'll have to do something in return for all this," she said. I told her I'd think about what I could do and return. After I left, I decided I would write a poem for her. Actually I wrote two poems; I thought they were quite good. I re- turned to the offi ce with the poems and gave them to her. Then I woke up! It seems like I dream almost every night. Some of my dreams are very active; so that I wake exhausted. I would like to think that when I sleep, I relax, but not so after some dreams. I don't dream the same dream over and over as some people do; I can't remember ever repeating a dream. Like I never see movies a second time... A lot of the time I remember my dreams or at least part of them. Like the one above, I remember writ- ing two poems, going over them, improving them, and being quite happy with the result, but I couldn't remember any part of the poems when I awoke. DARN! All that work for nothing! What really amazes me about dreams is how I can have a dream about something I've never done before, never been aware of, never thought about in my entire life. For instance in the above dream, where did the snakes come from? Then I remembered a story from the book I was reading at the time took place in China, and the performing artist had a bag of snakes with him. He was worried about the snakes getting cold. And what about the giant bug that landed on the woman's head and killed her? WEIRD! It's kind of scarey how your mind takes over -- has a mind of its own -- so to speak. Sometimes dreams make sense and give you what you want. For example, yesterday I went to a potluck, and I didn't get a chance to try the chicken sausages. Last night as part of my dream, a friend handed me a paper bag. When I opened the bag, there were four sausages. It was an isolated incident, unrelated to any other part of the dream. The dream ended so I still haven't eaten the sausages! I've dreamed entire novels in one night. They seem so real at the time. I remember thinking I'll just get up and write a book, but by morning the whole thing has disappeared like birds in fl ight. Rarely, I'll have a dream where I wake up crying. That dream is always about someone I love that's passed away. I usually remember those kinds of dreams, like one where I had a really good visit with my mother. It seemed soooooo real; SHE seemed so real. It was so good to be with her again. It was if she paid me a visit in the only way she could. I loved it, and in the morning, there were tears in my eyes. There have been dreams where I'm with my dog Joy Totheworld who was with me more than 12 years. We walk, play, and laugh together. (Oh dear, here come the tears...) Those kinds of dreams are bitter sweet: wonderful to be with those I'll never see again but sad too because it makes me miss them so. I want those dreams back! I'd like to be able to call them up on demand -- dial in a person's name and dream about them. Sometimes the dreams are roman- tic, and that's nice! ~*~*~*~*~*~ "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." ~ Charles William Dement ~*~*~*~*~*~ From Gypsy Jane Archives ~*~*~*~*~*~ You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, The playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures Before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind And choose a different future or a different past.....unknown ~*~*~*~*~*~ The Arizona Department of Trans- portation (ADOT) is looking for the driver of a truck that struck the pedes- trian bridge over eastbound Interstate 10 in Quartzsite recently. The damage was discovered Aug. 21, but the date when it occurred isn't certain. Preliminary estimates on damage place repair costs at approximately $200,000. Offi cers with ADOT's En- forcement and Compliance Division suspect that a boom or something else large carried by a truck struck the bridge, which has a vertical clearance of 17 feet. Photos of the damage can be viewed on ADOT's Facebook page. If you have information about this incident, please contact the Enforcement and Compli- ance Division at 602-712-2340.

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