Healing Dreams

ciao a tutti amici,

i have soooo much to say, and so little (or should i say such expensive) time at the internet cafe.

i have been having very powerful dreams this past week or so. they started out as very nightmarish dreams. i attributed this to my nightmarish experience travelling here. but no. i think it is something else. i have had spates of strong dreams in the past and i started writing them down. i even attended a dream class once trying to understand them and their intensity. i would find my dream journals years later and finally would understand their meanings and would have epiphanies because of them.

but the dream i had last night started out as a nightmare but turned into an empowering and healing dream. here goes:

i dreamed that i was on a team of people that was preparing for a trip to Mars. it was a scarry thought for me... going to Mars. I participated in interviews for the television news answering questions about the planned trip etc. I was very scared, but at some point in the dream i said to myself... dont be afraid, you have been to Mars before. I "remembered many monsters like dragons that were there, but I knew i would be safe because we had many ranger/warriors along with us that knew exactly how to deal with these beasts. One of the warriors that was coming along was my little brother Tony. okay. so in the dream i started to look forward with glee to the trip (and the dream) because i had Tony along.

My brother Tony died when he was 17 years old... 30 years ago.

when i woke up... i felt such happiness, because i think i now have 2 guardian angels along with me on this trip (So Italy equating to Mars?). One guardian angel being Enzo, on the material plane. and the other guardian angel is Tony in the spirit world plane. i have nothing to fear. and my fears have stopped me from doing so many many things in my life! i feel that i have very strong protection now and i can do almost anything my heart leads me to do!

Quirky, Amusing and Amazing things:
- News anchors here... the three major channels, all read the morning paper to you. zooming in on the photos and highlighted text. hahahaha.
- there is free garbage collection here. in many places around town there are dumpsters and recycling bins for paper, cardboard, tin, glass and aluminum. wow amazing!
- southern italians do "things" with their interior and exterior design that seem so... crafty, artistic and creative. you never seem a plainly painted or flately plastered wall!
- i smell different/better now. every part of me lol lol, skin, sweat, and everything else too. maybe it's the food or maybe the scents of flowers blooming and pastries baking.. that is on the winds. a big surprise for me wow. cool!

Blessings:
The dreams, spumanti (bellisima!), beautiful sunrises, lemon gelato mixed with lemoncello as an afternon apertif, slowly gaining in understanding of the language. my fellow students, Agnes and Christina(france), Julia (germany) and Bill (england). i am in love again and again.

Curses:
i still have not found a laundromat and i am washing my clothes in a tub and hanging them out.

Yesterday afternoon i went for a long hike with a few fellow students. we walked up a road/trail along a little "creek" into the country. ohhhh soooo beautiful this country. i found a tiny little house that was abandoned within a orchard of flowing fruit and olive trees. it even had an arbor that was covered with wisteria (glicine) preparing to bloom very big time soon. i started to have such amazing day dreams of the possibilities wow. my fellow students had to pull me away from it. I took lots of photos on the hike, but have yet to figure out how to post them using these confounding computers here at the cafe.

enough for now... later...