Winter Waxing Cold Moon
The NFC championship game is today. You know where I’ll be. Yup. Right there in the chair, cheering on the Vikes. After dispassionately reading all the match-up analysis and carefully considering all the key information, I still believe the Vikes win a close one. Adrian Peterson dominates the running game. We keep Drew Brees and his high flyers off the field. Favre connects with Rice twice, Shiancoe once, Berrian once and Peterson goes in for one. Jared Allen and Ray Edwards keep Brees out of his rhythm and don’t allow deep balls. Vikes 35. Saints 28.
I had a strange dream last night. Somehow I got a job working in a financial company, investment company, something like that. Our financial planner, RJ Devick, worked there. I did some work that needed to be turned in by a specific time, but couldn’t find either a phone or the work. Borrowed RJ’s phone, still couldn’t find the work.
All the while Izzy, the famous Hawai’ian singer, sang background music, “Living in an alien land.” This was to the tune of his protest song, “Living in a sovereign Land.”
I went out for a while, came back to the office (music still playing) and I had red rock dust on a sweatshirt and I realized I had way under dressed for work. I couldn’t go back in. I went out to get the Celica and it had one of those tiny spares on it–though in this case it was very large and shredded.
I’m still working on this one. Guess I recalled it after my Jung tribute.
Might have been related to some reading I did in a journal from 1991, written as I separated from the Presbytery and started writing. Some of it made my teeth clench. I planned and planned, struggled this way and that, but had trouble finding a new way, even though what I wrote there made clear the ministry had never been the way. A hard time even though I was breaking free, or, maybe, a hard time because I was breaking free. There would be another ten years of on again off again angst as I wrote, got rejected, failed to market my work, felt like a failure, was a failure.
Then, somewhere in my 50’s I began to realize I had broken through into the life this Self came into the world to live. It’s not a flashy or big life–as I wanted at times before–it’s a life devoted to family, beauty, the earth, creativity and knowledge.
And, at least for this evening–the Vikings.
