Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 10:04:48 -0700 (PDT)

Dream:
Someone had died in the family. My sister or I had to spend the night alone with the body while rest of family travelled somewhere. I didn't want to spend the night in mom's house with this body. (Might have been mother.) (She was one of messages on machine, when I awoke, this am, btw)

Then, I had fallen on hardship. Worried about having an old car I couldn't afford to replace. Also worried about my old coffee cup, and ashamed to have to keep using it.
A very nice man I knew from St.Elmo - used to be a fellow Tenor I sat by in our church choir - Bill Belden. Brother to the rich Belden Oil Family, there. He was so nice, he almost seemed a bit foolish. (I saw him at the funeral of my piano teacher, last May, and he always luvs to talk to me. Very nice man.)

Anyway, he wanted to give me his old coffee cup he didn't use, anymore. I think it was actually the car, tho. I just remember being saved by his gift. If that makes any sense. A wonderful "relieved" feeling from such a nice man. His family is extremely sweet - beautiful children, too.
Then, I was playing the organ - pedals and all. The rhythm was out of Sting's "I'll be wrapped around your finger" (Starts out with a line something about "always seeking knowledge," then "back in college", etc. that is the part I was playing. Sparkling dust was coming off the keys as I played. As if annointed. (I still play the organ for their church, sometimes - Easter, and special occasions.) I will always count that as one of my greatest joys, too.
Then, a very, very short lady walked thru the room - she was bitter and complaining about something. Maybe one of Bill's aunts or something. She was a relative, tho and belonged there. I had brought my portfolio to show them my new sketches. I wanted to give him one, to thank him. The little lady really liked them. She loved the one I described [in an earlier email, and I saved the actual sketch] of the light shining on the people. Then I woke up. Wild, eh? So clear with a plot, happy ending and everything!