A Layer Cake for Nanny Margaret Case

Dream: I was at my house on Lake Titus Road, yet it was now her house and we all came to visit her. Someone knocked on the door and gave me a pretty round layer cake, white with one rose on it for her. I thought, 'yum, we're going to have cake tonight!". The door opened and people came in bringing a huge huge sheet cake and at the head of it was attatched another round layer cake. It was so big we had to lay it on the floor and she sat at one corner on a stool near the door. The cake was covered in rich icing and swirls and roses and had a slight golden sheen. She was wearing a 1950's golden wool coat with round collar and big corsage on it. She had on a pill box hat with a net and more flowers. She was beaming with joy and we were all so pleased for her getting the recognition she deserved. ---end of dream---

comments: Nanny Mag's raised a bunch of kids, 6, and by herself when my Dad was 16 and my grandfather died. She always cooked great big meals on holidays when we visited her. More and more I think of her. I never knew her as an adult but I understand so much more now and wish I could go and learn about what her life and what she was like. I miss her. I feel sort of cheated because when my Dad died I was 15 and there was no real contact after that. Life is strange. I suppose my grandkids will be busy teens wanting nothing to do with old people  and I hope I understand that they just don't get it yet. Maybe it will be different. I don't think my Mom was helpful at all about encouraging us to keep a relationship with her estranged husband. I only see glimmers of 'facts' and more fiction so what can I do but let it go. Find peace in the now.

Dream Title: A friend for brother George

Dream: A friend for brother George

Dream: My now 65 yr old brother, George, was about 30 in the dream and visiting from far away. It seemed he had just broken up with someone and had no one so visited us. I felt bad for him and tried to think of someone who had a sister or cousin he could meet. No luck. On the ride to take him back, I think we were in a convertible and leaving from the blue Lake Titus Rd. house, we had to pull over to a camp site, or amusement area and he met a guy with a family and talked all about cars and they were 'friends' right away. I was relieved.

Comments: I haven't seen my brother in years and years. He's quite the cold fish.

Dream Title: Catching the bus

Dream: I am in busy Patchogue, Long Island, NY in the mid '60's but it is all different. It is Christmas and I have to get fabric and also find a gift for my brother George. Sometimes it is my son, Mykel, who I can't find an appropriate gift for and I'm running out o~f money and time. I see the shops are all scrambled, different and the city-like crowds are shoving and trying to catch busses. What bus can I take home? I feel lost. I see busses stopping across the street and I make my way over there and ask someone how to get back home. ~end of dream~

Comments: I did take the bus with friend Anita when we were young teens going from Farmingville to Patchogue by bus. It was always a bit scary for me then and I've had this same dream in various forms countless times.

On a higher note, my dream teacher told me that bus dreams or cars, bikes, planes etc. are transit dreams from one plane to another, the 03 dream plane to the 01 physical plane.

Margot Benary-Isbert and Enrico Arno

In 1955 Margot Benary-Isbert wrote 'The Wicked Enchantment'. It is a lovely young adult novel translated from German and illustrated by Enrico Arno. It is now out of print. 

When my daughter was a little girl, we read this and it became a family favorite.  In the story, Aunt Gundula sleeps in a large bed she calls 'The Dream Ship', thus our big, roomy bed became our own dream ship. 

She is now a grown woman expecting her own child and she reintroduced me to this book I am now borrowing. I found Enrico's illustrations so nice and his art of dream ship worked great for my blog. Thank you Margot and Enrico where ever you are sailing.