A Collection of Dreams

Dreams can be wonderful or terrifying, plebeian or absurd. But something dreamy? It’s almost always going to be ephemeral, gone with the next wind or whisper. Worth capturing (on what used to be called film, when much more effort was required to preserve it) in order to share and revisit it.

It’s going to be something that changes with all that changes around it. At even the most ancient places on the planet, it will change in the next frame, with the light and air and next skip of a stone across the autumn reflections on a pond’s surface.

It will transform with the next cell that reaches its limits, the next leaf that buds or falls, the next breath that is or is not taken.

You just never know where you might wander into a dreamscape, too impossibly beautiful and ephemeral to convince yourself you’d seen in the absence of photographic evidence. Your beagles may insist on following a scent trail when sunrise erupts in the thin space between a gray morning and a grayer day. Your daughter may invite you to visit her in India when peacocks are courting in Jodhpur. Fog just ahead of a storm system may fluoresce. You may take a last family trip to the end of the world as you will ever know it.

You can collect those dreamy images and share them.

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Author: Stephanie

In her spare time, Stephanie has published articles and delivered talks in arcane fields like forensic evidentiary issues, statistical presentations of human and canine DNA testing, jury instructions, and expert scientific witness preparation. She attended law school near the the banks of the Charles River and loves that dirty water; she will always think of Boston as her home. You are welcome to take a look at her Facebook author page, or follow @SMartinGlennon on Twitter and @schnitzelpond on Instagram. Bonus points for anyone who understands the Instagram handle. All content on this blog, unless otherwise attributed, is (c) 2012-2023 by Stephanie M. Glennon and should not be reproduced (in any form other than re-blogging in accordance with the wee Wordpress buttons at the bottom of each post) without the express permission of the domain holder.

3 thoughts on “A Collection of Dreams”

  1. Ephemeral. All of it is far too brief. Blink, sneeze, glance away for the smallest fraction of time and everything can change. I guess all change happens in a moment. The good kind and the kind that breaks deep things within us. Wonderful images. Thanks for sharing.

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