I've been having "bad" dreams and wondering where they come from. I've been reading Galeano's Genesis for the past two weeks before falling asleep. I've been thinking about a full page ad on the back page of the local "hip" weekly advertising a rum called Captain Morgan. The graphic features the usual swashbuckling Disneyesque buccaneer Historically, Morgan was a pirate who raided Spanish galleons as they carried the wealth of the Americas to Spain. In exchange for this wealth, Morgan was made an admiral in the British navy. In addition to the raids on Spanish ships, Morgan slaughtered the indigenous people of the Americas, which were not the "Americas" to the Aztec, the Inca, the Taino, the Carib....... He also profited from the sale of humans from Africa to work the mines, the fields, the mansions of the Pope's new dominions. In these bad dreams, I'm fighting, running, trying to find something my heart has lost. There are ants in the house. They come every winter at the turn of the year. They don't hide. I spray them, vacuum them up. They never come in to the kitchen.
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We get those ants, too - a harbinger of spring. They're not interested in the kitchen, and I think ants are pretty clean insects, so I just let them march through, and in a week or two they're gone. I couldn't live with roaches again, but ants (these ants, anyway) and spiders, I'm happy to coexist with.
First, why does your daughter aka my big sister love living with huge scary insects and arachnids.
second, so in your dream was capt Morgan there? Do you know what you lost and who were you fighting? You know there are several psychological theories that say that you are everything in your dream... my prof described it by saying if you dream about a dog peeing on a fire hydrant you are the dog the pee and the hydrant that is getting peed on.
uhm and are you done with your taxes yet father of mine... Im yet to see any glorious baby images...
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