Crossing Dreams and Reality

10/13/2024

 I hope your day is going well, I just got done walking nine miles straight. I am a little tight in the back.  I was sharing old work stories with the guy I was walking with.  He has been down almost 15 years and is going home in about 4 weeks.  I told him about rolling the dump truck, flipping the excavator and the big blow outs we had on the subdivision-  and some other stories too.  It’s funny when I talk about that stuff, it feels like a whole different life.  In here, things center around political stuff more than anything. All the real world stuff I did feels more like a dream, when in reality it’s the other way around. The political stuff was the dream and the work was real.  I often think of the poem “the men who just wanted to be left alone” and what happens when dreams and reality cross.  

I hope everything else is going fine.  Love you,

Taylor

Marie,

I guess Fisher is a little nervous about his presentation on weapons in Shakespeare. I think it is so cute.  I think he will be a great public speaker one day if he wants to be.  

I played Trivia tonight and spanked my Paki friend. Spanked him, like 14-8.  He is so competitive, it kind of fun to win decisively…I got some questions really right that should have been hard… like who was Octavia married to when he married Cleopatra, and what king was born in 1400 something.  What is the chemical symbol for Gold, and a hard one where the answer was hammer. A whole bunch of them…totally nailed it.  Basically I only missed like 4 questions, and one of them I should have gotten,  but was so easy I biffed it.  What is the official name of Canada…it’s Canada, I thought it was a trick question and said commonwealth.  

I hope you sleep well. I miss you like crazy, I read a book called WHO MOVED MY CHEESE today, it’s been around awhile, figured I would finally read it…