I’ve had about three thousand tidal wave dreams in my day.
In last night’s version, by a nice turn of luck, I was staying in a Goldilocks-perfect cabin by the sea, resting blissfully. I was so comfortable! It was heaven. When I got up to look outside, I noticed stuff where it shouldn’t be all up the hillside in front of the cabin. Had a wave already washed over me as I slept? I turned to see the big one coming, more a press of high water (as they are) than the looming, arching, cresting giants of yesterday’s dreams. Though worried about my passport and camera inside (proof of my identity surely soaked and lost already), I scrambled up a tree, much like the first one here – but the height of the second –, and watched the world get engulfed. Later, everything was where it shouldn’t be. Cities were in gardens. Manuscripts were lost in the flotsam. People were stumbling around like sleepwalkers, calling out for one another.
I’m hoping the message is that it’s possible to rise above disasters if you act quickly.
Maybe it’s that we’re all gonna lose everything, no matter how comfortable we are.
Maybe it’s just a dream and we’re not ruining this beautiful planet.
In my estimation, this world IS Heaven.
Shame on us for not taking care of it like it is (as it is) the most glorious and precious of gifts.
—laura hohlwein
Flommist Laura Hohlwein is a contemporary abstract surrealist. Copyright © 2018 Laura Hohlwein.
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