Monday, March 24, 2003

I’ve been concentrating on holding

I’ve been concentrating on holding onto my dreams and finally caught one.  Am I pleased?  Hard to say....

The part I remember had me on a cabin cruiser being towed around the streets of a tough waterfront city.  It was owned and skippered by a corrupt cop.  The boat was decorated in bandaid beige and was loaded with sport fishing gear. I asked the skipper how I could be helpful, secretly fearing for my safety.  Leering at me from the wheelhouse, he handed me a bulky winch handle and told me to cinch up a boat we were towing.  I hopped down and attended to my task, noting that the insertion for the winch handle was disturbingly tiny.  But I got the job done, quickly and efficiently, and as I tossed the handle back to the skipper I asked if there was anything else he needed me to tighten up.  He demurred. 

This dream could mean a lot of things.  I prefer to believe that it doesn’t.