Snow is forecast for next week. It is winter. Mr. Groundhog told us what to expect. The hints of spring must yield to winter. But time is drawing nigh.

The reality of the moment was compelling. There were family and friends, and Grandma, who had been dead for many years. She was in the pink, drinking Merlot and laughing. Earl announced Mimo’s Pizza had arrived. Aaron was toddling around Granma’s Eldorado home with the basketball larger than him that Earl had gotten for him because he pointed at it. In walked Uncle Gene saying, ‘Get the point…Get the point,’ he wore a beanie with a propeller on his head. Uncle Gene wore a pink ballerina dress with ballet shoes on his large feet. We were in the car outrunning a tornado. Cheetah sat humbly in the car seat as Earl drove frantically zigzagging to outwit the twister. President Kennedy stood in the middle of the stormy road and advised that we had better turn back…he said he had told Rosemary the same thing.

Dreams are real to our sleeping selves. If you do not think so check your heart rate upon awakening. Once a pastor told me that soon I would have a new car. I laughed as I had nothing and did good to keep body and soul together. A month later I purchased a new LTD.

‘Is the dream the real reality,’ Chet asked? ‘Dad told me that he was going on a journey and that I would be the man of the house…he cautioned me to take care of mom and water his garden…I then woke up to find he had died during the night,’ Chet said sadly. ‘Remember when we visited the future and saw our adult selves…old and arthritic,’ Chet asked? ‘Was that reality or is this,’ Chet said.

‘It was the near future…the United States was diminished…authoritarianism ruled,’ Billy B said. ‘People lived in enclaves with others of similar beliefs and ethnicity…guns were everywhere people carried them in their pockets and slung over their shoulders,’ Billy B noted. ‘Russia China and North Korea became our allies…NATO lay in ruins from neglect…the Gaza War had been going on for years with the United States a key player,’ Billy B said sadly. ‘I had this dream in 1965…it is now waking reality,’ Billy B said questioningly…