(It was a mental adventure....really)
At some point last night I had a crazy dream; the actions were central, but once I woke up, it was the surroundings that blew my mind. If High Times, NORML and the Montessori movement all threw in together to build a place for people to come play and learn about all kinds of stuff, this would be it. It was like the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum on crack. FYI, I was totally sober when I went to bed.
All the rooms had fairly high ceilings except the ones geared toward young children (now that I think of it, great acoustics for the shrieking of hatchlings is probably not the best idea anyway...); the walls were in soft neutral colors in between colorful murals about plants, evolution and space; there was a room about the ecosystem and in the "corner" of the room, there was a garden, full of flowers, food (tomatoes! green beans! strawberries!) dominated by a rather large cannabis plant, that was under an open skylight. The setup was hard to describe, but that corner was closed off by plexiglass to keep people from fondling the flora, and the glass went up to and sealed to the skylight, so sun and moisture could get in, but dirt, water and such things wouldn't be spilling out into the room. The soil was fairly deep, and there was a bunch of charts and such on the glass, things to look for in the cross-section of soil that you could see (bugs, rocks, roots, etc), very like any other museum exhibit.
Despite being totally agog with wonder over this, I kept walking. The next room looked like a very casual library; lots of books, beanbag chairs in a circle before a woman reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar aloud, and then the back half of the room was all kinds of neat toys and carpet squares and one of those portable puppet-show things. I went to look at them (c'mon, there were TOYS!), and found a lot of them to be not your usual Wal-Mart fare. You know what I'm talking about; fabric dolls in earth colors and all kinds of skin tones, a whole box of wooden blocks that a few little kids were gleefully building towers with, pretend kitchen stuff, play silks, the works. At the end there was a door.....and of course I went through it.
I was too busy thinking about all of this, and didn't really pay attention as I wandered down a wide corridor where several teenagers were playing card games (I saw Yu-Gi-Oh and MTG for sure) at two-person tables. The door at the end of the hall had a window, and it looked bright and warm outside, so I hurried toward it with a mounting sense of anticipation; I threw the door open and stepped outside, grinning widely at the thought of real, warm sunlight on my face and arms. My feet hit....sand?
I quit being all excited about the weather and looked around me. The sand had been raked in concentric circles, wavy lines, and other patterns around a few large rocks and a winding line of stepping stones. A little pond was in the middle; beneath the ripples of the fountain, I could see bright fish swimming even from where I was. And there on rock sat my love, Zentetsu, smiling at me as I took all of this in. He beckoned me closer, and just before he took my hand, I woke up.
Like I said. Fucking crazy. I'll be seeing him later, so most assuredly I will tell him of this. It's gonna be a good day.....I rarely have such dreams, so rich in details. I have no clue where this place is, but I want to live there. Or build it someday.
At some point last night I had a crazy dream; the actions were central, but once I woke up, it was the surroundings that blew my mind. If High Times, NORML and the Montessori movement all threw in together to build a place for people to come play and learn about all kinds of stuff, this would be it. It was like the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum on crack. FYI, I was totally sober when I went to bed.
All the rooms had fairly high ceilings except the ones geared toward young children (now that I think of it, great acoustics for the shrieking of hatchlings is probably not the best idea anyway...); the walls were in soft neutral colors in between colorful murals about plants, evolution and space; there was a room about the ecosystem and in the "corner" of the room, there was a garden, full of flowers, food (tomatoes! green beans! strawberries!) dominated by a rather large cannabis plant, that was under an open skylight. The setup was hard to describe, but that corner was closed off by plexiglass to keep people from fondling the flora, and the glass went up to and sealed to the skylight, so sun and moisture could get in, but dirt, water and such things wouldn't be spilling out into the room. The soil was fairly deep, and there was a bunch of charts and such on the glass, things to look for in the cross-section of soil that you could see (bugs, rocks, roots, etc), very like any other museum exhibit.
Despite being totally agog with wonder over this, I kept walking. The next room looked like a very casual library; lots of books, beanbag chairs in a circle before a woman reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar aloud, and then the back half of the room was all kinds of neat toys and carpet squares and one of those portable puppet-show things. I went to look at them (c'mon, there were TOYS!), and found a lot of them to be not your usual Wal-Mart fare. You know what I'm talking about; fabric dolls in earth colors and all kinds of skin tones, a whole box of wooden blocks that a few little kids were gleefully building towers with, pretend kitchen stuff, play silks, the works. At the end there was a door.....and of course I went through it.
I was too busy thinking about all of this, and didn't really pay attention as I wandered down a wide corridor where several teenagers were playing card games (I saw Yu-Gi-Oh and MTG for sure) at two-person tables. The door at the end of the hall had a window, and it looked bright and warm outside, so I hurried toward it with a mounting sense of anticipation; I threw the door open and stepped outside, grinning widely at the thought of real, warm sunlight on my face and arms. My feet hit....sand?
I quit being all excited about the weather and looked around me. The sand had been raked in concentric circles, wavy lines, and other patterns around a few large rocks and a winding line of stepping stones. A little pond was in the middle; beneath the ripples of the fountain, I could see bright fish swimming even from where I was. And there on rock sat my love, Zentetsu, smiling at me as I took all of this in. He beckoned me closer, and just before he took my hand, I woke up.
Like I said. Fucking crazy. I'll be seeing him later, so most assuredly I will tell him of this. It's gonna be a good day.....I rarely have such dreams, so rich in details. I have no clue where this place is, but I want to live there. Or build it someday.
jaybird:
Wow. You dreamed it. Save this one forever.