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Mother gives chocolate eggs

-Eggs, eggs, eggu, here you go honey.

-Oh! Oh, th-thank you.

-Yeah.

-Thank you very much. Ah, oh, can I cook them?

-Yes, cook it in your mouth.

Dad tells a story

-In the car, at night, driving through thick trees and bushes.
-In response to me telling him about General Woundwort in Watership Down and how his capability to grasp reason and peace but willfully reject it made his tyranny all the more disturbing.


When I was about 5 yrs old there was this show, a cartoon that I remember watching. On this show there were these three heroes in outer space and they were always fighting against this villain. He was like some kind of evil black draped robe, faceless, something like that.

Anyway, one of the heroes was a young boy and in one episode the kid finds this sort of animal in the forest at night. It’s actually the villain’s pet and it’s wounded badly  and it keeps crying out and tries to bite the kid when he goes near it. He’s not sure if he should help it or not but he finally decides to nurse it back to health. Then he takes it back to the villain’s house, or fortress, rings the bell and leaves the animal there (and he runs away so that he’s not caught.)

Later on in the show, the kid gets very ill. He apparently gets sick or badly hurt in the process of saving the pet and now he’s on the verge of dying. There’s a serum that can cure him but the villain is the only one who has it. The pet had told the villain that the kid had saved him and this surprises the villain. While the other heroes are kneeling around the bed of the dying kid the villain pulls his spaceship near theirs and shoots over a capsule containing the serum. When the kid recovers the heroes raise their victory flag and the villain shoots it down.

Thinking back on it, it was over 40 years ago, I’m not sure if it was a sense of gratitude that moved the villain or…some people you know do things just because they hate the idea of being indebted to someone.

dream from last night

My mom and I were in a Toys R Us.  She was shopping for plastic glow in the dark stars to stick to the walls and ceiling of our house.  We looked at several different brands. She actually ended up picking a set of turquoise colored bead stars that didn’t glow in the dark at all.

As we were going to the check out counter, I saw a tiny plastic thermos that I really wanted to buy. My mom disapproved of the thermos so I told her I would pay for it myself.  She paid for the stars but the cashier wouldn’t let me buy the thermos.  I took it to the other cashier but she said it had been flagged.  I wandered around the parking lot crying.

Later, I found a large, extended version of a comic I like.  It included essays on the comic in the beginning.  There was also a section on a ballet called “The Origin of Space” which involved a scholarly man being attacked by icy debris and crystals.  Eventually he is saved by some lady (she was supposed to be something else.) Everything took place in a black void which was occasionally lit up by a bright blast from somewhere.