So many things can happen today! So many lives can be changed even if in small subtle ways. So maybe smile a bit more, send out happy notes in email, kiss a loved one a lil' more today and see how it might help our world.

Lately I've been having a great dream life! My dreams have been so vivid and real. Been having a reoccurring dream that I find quite enjoyable, so I looked up the possible meaning in various online Dream Dictionaries that purport to explain such things. 

I was greatly disappointed by what I read and hesitate even telling you. None of the interpretations felt right to me as I had good feelings about the dreams when I woke and all through the day those images kept a spring in my step, a boost of optimism, a smile on my face, so maybe it really means something different to me.

I keep dreaming I am finding Silver coins! There, I said it! Not a big deal, right? I find them everywhere and drop them in my baggy pockets. I find them on the sidewalk. I find them in books as bookmarks. I find them in the streets. I find Silver coins everywhere and collecting them makes me happy in the dreams.

When I woke up from the first one, I remembered an article about David Lynch and a scene in his film, "Eraserhead" where the character Henry is alone caring for his deformed baby in his small dark apartment and there is a commotion outside his window down on the alleyway below. He looks out to see that some people have found coins stacked up just under a layer of dirt and soot. The crowd grows like a mini gold rush and Henry starts out to join it, but each time he starts to leave his armless and legless baby begins crying preventing him from making it out to the fortune that's free for the taking.

Later Lynch removed that scene from the film, but I don't know why?

In one Dream Dictionary it said, "To see coins in your dream, indicate missed or overlooked opportunities that have come your way.  To see gold coins in your dream, represent success and wealth.  Silver coins represent spirituality, intuition, values, and your sense of self-worth."

Another one says, "You will never be financially stable" and then another interpretation says, "It's a sign that great wealth is on it's way to you" how can there be such an opposite view on the same kind of dream?

There were other interpretations, but frankly, I got depressed and sad reading their meaning. I felt so good after these dreams, I just know mine must mean something good!

In one dream, the one where I kept finding coins in a book, as though it were a bookmark, I was pulling a book off my shelf, it was a beautiful first edition hardback of, "The Razor's Edge" by W. Somerset Maugham and large Silver coins fell out into my hand and when I closed the book, the dust jacket came off and it was a secret book about the missing years of Jesus and his solitary travels, walking around the world. It was his diary and some small secret society had published the book to keep this sacred knowledge available to only those that could handle the real truth. 

This morning, I was chatting with an old friend about the 8 to possibly 20 Million Americans without jobs, and how this is a great depression and how it is being covered up and whitewashed and how we all are headed for deeper troubles. He said he ignores it all, never watched the News, never reads the news other than the weather reports. 

He and I worked for similar companies in the same industry. He took a different path than I did when we both realized what we know about our profession, gained experience in and all that we loved about it was coming to an end. When he got laid off he sold everything and started backpacking with his wife across Europe. This is their second year! They've had an awesome adventure, made new friends and lost a lot of weight! He is so much happier than I remember. Calm and not stressed. 

He said they just took the shock of the layoff and said, "How much more shocking can it be if we just left America and go on an unplanned journey? Instead of feeling defeated and crushed, we took the high road and turned it into a long ass vacation that hasn't ended yet!" 

I wish I could do that! Maybe I should! 

Who wants to go with me?