My grand daughter started six grade recently. There are 14 students in her class. She will move from one class to another, as if it were junior high.
When we look back in at what our ancestors did for school, we remember school started after the harvest, postponed in the coldest of winter for the young children, and many where absent during planting season in the spring.
Old Trunks wonders if we can do a comparison, let's say for Stan, Elodee, Rachel, and Jaeme and see some sort of like pattern OR difference.
It may be a great venture! What do you remember, let's say, about kindergarten?
e
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
DREAMS Beverages
Beer
To see or drink beer in your dream, represents happiness, fogginess, or inspiration. It also indicates that you have quite a social life.
Alcohol
To dream that you are enjoying alcohol in moderation, denotes contentment and satisfaction in the decisions that you have made. Success is within your grasp. The dream may also be a metaphor for "spirits" and you need for spiritual enrichment.
To dream that you are consuming alcohol in excess, signifies feelings of inadequacy, worries, regrets and fears of being discovered for who you really are. You are using alcohol as a way to escape or as an excuse for something you did. Alternatively, the dream may be reflective of waking issues and problems of alcoholism.
Coffee
To dream that you are drinking or need your coffee, suggests that you should gain some insight and knowledge before making a decision or tackling some project/relationship. You may be acting too hasty and need to slow down. Alternatively, it may imply a need for you to change your routine.
To dream that you are drinking coffee with someone, indicates that you might have feelings for that person.
To see a coffee pot in your dream, signifies hospitality and sharing of knowledge, hopes, concerns and/or ideas. It may also represent neighborliness, comfort, and companionship.
Wine
To dream of drinking wine, symbolizes festivity, celebration, companionship, satisfaction and success. You are content with the way your life is going. The dream may also be a pun on "whining" and how you like to whine about things. In particular, to dream that you are drinking red wine, signifies excess and sensuality.
If you are drinking communion wine in your dream, then it represent some spiritual celebration or ceremony.
To dream that you are breaking wine bottles, signifies overindulgence in your desires and passion. Alternatively, it symbolizes the masculine.
Sorry, couldn't find anything on soda or pop as it is called in some areas of the country.
e
To see or drink beer in your dream, represents happiness, fogginess, or inspiration. It also indicates that you have quite a social life.
Alcohol
To dream that you are enjoying alcohol in moderation, denotes contentment and satisfaction in the decisions that you have made. Success is within your grasp. The dream may also be a metaphor for "spirits" and you need for spiritual enrichment.
To dream that you are consuming alcohol in excess, signifies feelings of inadequacy, worries, regrets and fears of being discovered for who you really are. You are using alcohol as a way to escape or as an excuse for something you did. Alternatively, the dream may be reflective of waking issues and problems of alcoholism.
Coffee
To dream that you are drinking or need your coffee, suggests that you should gain some insight and knowledge before making a decision or tackling some project/relationship. You may be acting too hasty and need to slow down. Alternatively, it may imply a need for you to change your routine.
To dream that you are drinking coffee with someone, indicates that you might have feelings for that person.
To see a coffee pot in your dream, signifies hospitality and sharing of knowledge, hopes, concerns and/or ideas. It may also represent neighborliness, comfort, and companionship.
Wine
To dream of drinking wine, symbolizes festivity, celebration, companionship, satisfaction and success. You are content with the way your life is going. The dream may also be a pun on "whining" and how you like to whine about things. In particular, to dream that you are drinking red wine, signifies excess and sensuality.
If you are drinking communion wine in your dream, then it represent some spiritual celebration or ceremony.
To dream that you are breaking wine bottles, signifies overindulgence in your desires and passion. Alternatively, it symbolizes the masculine.
Sorry, couldn't find anything on soda or pop as it is called in some areas of the country.
e
Sunday, August 30, 2009
DREAMS The Five Senses
Ears
To see ears in your dreams, suggests that you need to be more responsive or receptive to guidance and assistance from others. You may be relying too much on your own judgment and intuition. You need to listen more closely to what you are being told. Alternatively, it signifies your immaturity and lack of experience.
To dream that you are cleaning wax from your ears, suggests that you are not listening to those around you. There may be something that you are refusing to hear. Are you turning a deaf ear?
To dream of pain in your ear, indicates that you will be receive some bad or offensive news.
To dream that someone is whispering in your ear, suggests that you need to pay closer attention to something or listen to someone more carefully. Alternatively, it represents your insecurities and anxieties that people are talking about your behind your back.
Eyes
To see your own eyes in your dream, represents enlightenment, knowledge, comprehension, understanding, and intellectual awareness. Unconscious thoughts may be coming onto the surface. The left eye is symbolic of the moon, while the right eye represents the sun. It may also be a pun on "I" or the self.
If you dream that your eyes have turned inside your head and you can now see the inside of your head, then it symbolizes insight and something that you need to be aware of. This dream may be literally telling you that you need to look within your self. Trust your intuition and instincts.
To dream that you have something in your eye, represents obstacles in your path. Alternatively, it may represent your critical view and how you tend to see faults in others.
To dream that you have one eye, indicates your refusal to accept another viewpoint. It suggests that you are one-sided in your ways of thinking. To dream that you have a third eye, symbolizes inner vision, insight, instinct or some psychic ability you have yet untapped. You are able to see what others cannot.
Or you need to start looking within yourself and trust your instincts. To dream that your eyes are injured or closed, suggests your refusal to see the truth about something or the avoidance of intimacy. You may be expressing feelings of hurt, pain or sympathy.
To dream that you have crossed eyes, denotes that you are not seeing straight with regards to some situation. You may be getting your facts mixed up.
Nose
To see your own nose in your dream, signifies a conscious effort to achieve whatever endeavor you chose to undertake. The nose represents energy, intuition, and wisdom. You dream may suggest your need to learn more about a situation at hand.
Alternatively, the nose symbolizes curiosity, as in being nosy. Perhaps you are interfering into situations and things that are none of your business.
To dream that hair is growing on your nose, signifies extraordinary undertakings that need to be carried through a strong will and character.
Taste
To taste something bad in your dream, suggests that some behavior or action is not enough to sustain you, either physically, emotionally or spiritually. Alternatively, the dream may be telling you to take another consideration of what is causing this bad taste. Give it a second chance.
Touching
To dream that you are touching someone or something, indicates that you are trying to communicate your feelings and your need for contact. You may also be trying to evaluate a situation or gather information about our surroundings. To dream that you are being touched, represents your closeness and/or relationship with a particular person. It may also mean that you are connected with an aspect of yourself. Or you may be feeling emotional and sensitive.
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To see ears in your dreams, suggests that you need to be more responsive or receptive to guidance and assistance from others. You may be relying too much on your own judgment and intuition. You need to listen more closely to what you are being told. Alternatively, it signifies your immaturity and lack of experience.
To dream that you are cleaning wax from your ears, suggests that you are not listening to those around you. There may be something that you are refusing to hear. Are you turning a deaf ear?
To dream of pain in your ear, indicates that you will be receive some bad or offensive news.
To dream that someone is whispering in your ear, suggests that you need to pay closer attention to something or listen to someone more carefully. Alternatively, it represents your insecurities and anxieties that people are talking about your behind your back.
Eyes
To see your own eyes in your dream, represents enlightenment, knowledge, comprehension, understanding, and intellectual awareness. Unconscious thoughts may be coming onto the surface. The left eye is symbolic of the moon, while the right eye represents the sun. It may also be a pun on "I" or the self.
If you dream that your eyes have turned inside your head and you can now see the inside of your head, then it symbolizes insight and something that you need to be aware of. This dream may be literally telling you that you need to look within your self. Trust your intuition and instincts.
To dream that you have something in your eye, represents obstacles in your path. Alternatively, it may represent your critical view and how you tend to see faults in others.
To dream that you have one eye, indicates your refusal to accept another viewpoint. It suggests that you are one-sided in your ways of thinking. To dream that you have a third eye, symbolizes inner vision, insight, instinct or some psychic ability you have yet untapped. You are able to see what others cannot.
Or you need to start looking within yourself and trust your instincts. To dream that your eyes are injured or closed, suggests your refusal to see the truth about something or the avoidance of intimacy. You may be expressing feelings of hurt, pain or sympathy.
To dream that you have crossed eyes, denotes that you are not seeing straight with regards to some situation. You may be getting your facts mixed up.
Nose
To see your own nose in your dream, signifies a conscious effort to achieve whatever endeavor you chose to undertake. The nose represents energy, intuition, and wisdom. You dream may suggest your need to learn more about a situation at hand.
Alternatively, the nose symbolizes curiosity, as in being nosy. Perhaps you are interfering into situations and things that are none of your business.
To dream that hair is growing on your nose, signifies extraordinary undertakings that need to be carried through a strong will and character.
Taste
To taste something bad in your dream, suggests that some behavior or action is not enough to sustain you, either physically, emotionally or spiritually. Alternatively, the dream may be telling you to take another consideration of what is causing this bad taste. Give it a second chance.
Touching
To dream that you are touching someone or something, indicates that you are trying to communicate your feelings and your need for contact. You may also be trying to evaluate a situation or gather information about our surroundings. To dream that you are being touched, represents your closeness and/or relationship with a particular person. It may also mean that you are connected with an aspect of yourself. Or you may be feeling emotional and sensitive.
e
Saturday, August 29, 2009
DREAMS Did Grandpa dream this?
Grandpa was many things including a builder, a cattleman, and a well thought of man. They snared rabbits for food because shells for the rifle where costly. Poor and primitive as their lives may have been on the prairie with so many children in the house, they made do and were, for the most part, surrounded by neighbors in the same situation. What lacked in funds for this struggling community was made up by bartering and friendships. I like to think, although their live was hard, there were rewards we will never know in our lives. We, of course, can never miss what we didn't have.
Rabbits To see a rabbit in your dream, signifies luck, magical power, and success. You have a positive outlook on life. Alternatively, rabbits symbolize abundance, warmth, fertility and sexual activity. The dream can also be associated with Easter time and your own personal memories of Easter. To see a white rabbit in your dream, symbolizes faithfulness in love. To see rabbits hopping, signifies fertility and that children will bring you much joy. Alternatively, the dream may be analogous to your lack of commitment and how you jump from one thing or another.
Gun To see a gun in your dream, symbolizes aggression, anger, and potential danger. You may be dealing with issues of passiveness/aggressiveness and authority/dependence.
Alternatively, a gun represents the penis and male sexual drive. Thus, the gun may mean power or impotence, depending on whether the gun went off or misfired.
To dream that you are loading a gun, forewarns that you should be careful in not letting your temper get out of control. To dream that a gun fails to fire, indicates that you are feeling powerless in some waking situation.
Perhaps you need to attack your problems from a different approach. Alternatively, a malfunctioning gun represents sexual impotence or fear of impotence. To dream that you shoot someone with a gun, denotes your aggressive feelings and hidden anger toward that particular person.
Swamp To see a swamp in your dream, symbolizes aspects of yourself that are repressed and dark. You may be feeling insecure. The dream may also be a pun on feeling swamped from work, a relationship, or other emotional burden. To dream that you are walking through a swampy area, foretells that you will be find yourself in an adverse situation.
Disappointments in love may also be implied from this symbol. You will suffer much displeasure from unwise conduct of those around you.
On a less negative note, walking through a swamp, denotes that you will experience prosperity and pleasure, but through dangerous and intriguing means.
Railroad To see a railroad in your dream, signifies that you have laid out a set track toward achieving your goals. Your progress will be slow but steady. You are well disciplined and secure in your life.
Alternatively, it indicates that you may be too linear and rigid in your thinking. Sometimes you need to go off track and explore other possibilities.
To see an obstruction on the railroad, denotes the path toward your goals will not be an easy one. It may also indicate that you have lost track of your goals,
To dream that you are walking alongside the railroad tracks, signifies much happiness from your skillful completion of your tasks.
We do know that grandpa had night mares most of his life. When his wife, Julia deceased, one of his concerns what who would wake him from this sweaty frightened state? He slept at parent's house after her death. Although he was downstairs, one could hear him hollering. Daddy woke him often.
The question is, did he have nightmares in his nightmare? And what does that mean? Nightmare To dream that you are having a nightmare, denotes failure in business, disappointments, or decline in health. You may have been indulgent in things and need to cut back on such activities. Allow the mind and body to rest and heal.
e
Rabbits To see a rabbit in your dream, signifies luck, magical power, and success. You have a positive outlook on life. Alternatively, rabbits symbolize abundance, warmth, fertility and sexual activity. The dream can also be associated with Easter time and your own personal memories of Easter. To see a white rabbit in your dream, symbolizes faithfulness in love. To see rabbits hopping, signifies fertility and that children will bring you much joy. Alternatively, the dream may be analogous to your lack of commitment and how you jump from one thing or another.
Gun To see a gun in your dream, symbolizes aggression, anger, and potential danger. You may be dealing with issues of passiveness/aggressiveness and authority/dependence.
Alternatively, a gun represents the penis and male sexual drive. Thus, the gun may mean power or impotence, depending on whether the gun went off or misfired.
To dream that you are loading a gun, forewarns that you should be careful in not letting your temper get out of control. To dream that a gun fails to fire, indicates that you are feeling powerless in some waking situation.
Perhaps you need to attack your problems from a different approach. Alternatively, a malfunctioning gun represents sexual impotence or fear of impotence. To dream that you shoot someone with a gun, denotes your aggressive feelings and hidden anger toward that particular person.
Swamp To see a swamp in your dream, symbolizes aspects of yourself that are repressed and dark. You may be feeling insecure. The dream may also be a pun on feeling swamped from work, a relationship, or other emotional burden. To dream that you are walking through a swampy area, foretells that you will be find yourself in an adverse situation.
Disappointments in love may also be implied from this symbol. You will suffer much displeasure from unwise conduct of those around you.
On a less negative note, walking through a swamp, denotes that you will experience prosperity and pleasure, but through dangerous and intriguing means.
Railroad To see a railroad in your dream, signifies that you have laid out a set track toward achieving your goals. Your progress will be slow but steady. You are well disciplined and secure in your life.
Alternatively, it indicates that you may be too linear and rigid in your thinking. Sometimes you need to go off track and explore other possibilities.
To see an obstruction on the railroad, denotes the path toward your goals will not be an easy one. It may also indicate that you have lost track of your goals,
To dream that you are walking alongside the railroad tracks, signifies much happiness from your skillful completion of your tasks.
We do know that grandpa had night mares most of his life. When his wife, Julia deceased, one of his concerns what who would wake him from this sweaty frightened state? He slept at parent's house after her death. Although he was downstairs, one could hear him hollering. Daddy woke him often.
The question is, did he have nightmares in his nightmare? And what does that mean? Nightmare To dream that you are having a nightmare, denotes failure in business, disappointments, or decline in health. You may have been indulgent in things and need to cut back on such activities. Allow the mind and body to rest and heal.
e
Friday, August 28, 2009
DREAMS What grandma may have dreamed
Old Trunks is thinking about what grandma dreamed beyond the normal sexual, frightened, falling dreams that are common to all of us. Let's think about what grandma did. Here we go, another lesson in embroidery dish towels, i.e. Wash on Monday, Iron on Tuesday......bare with me, it might be fun.
Clothesline
To dream that you are hanging out clothing on a clothesline, suggests that you are revealing hidden aspects of yourself, especially if they are underwear. The dream may also signify your hang-ups. In particular, if your are hanging white clothes in the backyard, then it indicates your desire for pureness and to be cleansed. You may also be proclaiming your innocence in some situation.
Sewing
To dream that you are sewing, suggests that you are trying to make amends with others. There may be a situation or relationship that needs to be repaired. Perhaps you are creating a new self-image and taking on a new attitude. Alternatively, it represents fertility, growth, and emotional maturity.
Sewing Machine
To see a sewing machine in your dream, denotes that economizing will help you through difficult times.
Quilts--This one is for you Soozi--
To see a quilt in your dream, signifies harmony, protection, warmth, and pleasant and comfortable circumstances. Consider the color and pattern of the quilt for additional significance.
To see a soiled quilt in your dream, signifies carelessness in dress and manner.
Baking
To dream that you are baking, represents your creative self and you ability to make things happen. If you are mixing ingredients together that you normally would not combine, then it suggests that you need to find a connection between two seemingly different things. Perhaps these things that seem incompatible may yield surprising but positive results.
Do we dream about what we do? I think so, at least in fragments.
e
Clothesline
To dream that you are hanging out clothing on a clothesline, suggests that you are revealing hidden aspects of yourself, especially if they are underwear. The dream may also signify your hang-ups. In particular, if your are hanging white clothes in the backyard, then it indicates your desire for pureness and to be cleansed. You may also be proclaiming your innocence in some situation.
Sewing
To dream that you are sewing, suggests that you are trying to make amends with others. There may be a situation or relationship that needs to be repaired. Perhaps you are creating a new self-image and taking on a new attitude. Alternatively, it represents fertility, growth, and emotional maturity.
Sewing Machine
To see a sewing machine in your dream, denotes that economizing will help you through difficult times.
Quilts--This one is for you Soozi--
To see a quilt in your dream, signifies harmony, protection, warmth, and pleasant and comfortable circumstances. Consider the color and pattern of the quilt for additional significance.
To see a soiled quilt in your dream, signifies carelessness in dress and manner.
Baking
To dream that you are baking, represents your creative self and you ability to make things happen. If you are mixing ingredients together that you normally would not combine, then it suggests that you need to find a connection between two seemingly different things. Perhaps these things that seem incompatible may yield surprising but positive results.
Do we dream about what we do? I think so, at least in fragments.
e
Thursday, August 27, 2009
DREAMS Five things grandparents didn't dream about
May we safely say there are things that our grandparents didn't dream about? Think about it.
CD
To see a compact disc in your dream, represents a need for enjoyment or a distraction. It denotes opportunities and possibilities. Consider the type of music and the title of the compact disc. If you are giving away the CD, you may be trying to convey a message to that person within the songs.
Consider also if the initial "CD" have any additional significance to you. Perhaps it represents a person or may even be a pun on something that is "seedy".
CD Player
To see or use a CD player in your dream, represents the impression that you like to project to others. It may also symbolize inspiration and the pleasure of listening to music. Mother had an 8 track!
Cell Phone
To see or use a cell phone in your dream, indicates that you are being receptive to new information. It also represents your mobility.
To dream that you lost your cell phone, represents a lack of communication. You have lost touch with some aspect of your feelings or your Self.
If you find a cell phone, then it symbolizes reconnection and reopened communication.
Computer
To see a computer in your dream, symbolizes technology, information, and modern life. New areas of opportunities are being opened to you. Alternatively, computers also represent a lack of individuality and lack off emotions and feelings. Too often, you are just going along with the flow, without voicing your own opinions and views. You may also feel a depreciated sense of superiority.
To dream that your computer has a mind of its own, denotes anxiety about technology and loss of control. You are feeling overwhelmed and feel that you are at the mercy of another.
To dream that a computer has a virus or has crashed, suggests that something in your life that is out of control. It may parallel something in your life that has come to a crashing end.
Does that mean that some day the obit will mean, "Carol's computer crashed and so did she"? Not funny? It was in the moment.
e
CD
To see a compact disc in your dream, represents a need for enjoyment or a distraction. It denotes opportunities and possibilities. Consider the type of music and the title of the compact disc. If you are giving away the CD, you may be trying to convey a message to that person within the songs.
Consider also if the initial "CD" have any additional significance to you. Perhaps it represents a person or may even be a pun on something that is "seedy".
CD Player
To see or use a CD player in your dream, represents the impression that you like to project to others. It may also symbolize inspiration and the pleasure of listening to music. Mother had an 8 track!
Cell Phone
To see or use a cell phone in your dream, indicates that you are being receptive to new information. It also represents your mobility.
To dream that you lost your cell phone, represents a lack of communication. You have lost touch with some aspect of your feelings or your Self.
If you find a cell phone, then it symbolizes reconnection and reopened communication.
Computer
To see a computer in your dream, symbolizes technology, information, and modern life. New areas of opportunities are being opened to you. Alternatively, computers also represent a lack of individuality and lack off emotions and feelings. Too often, you are just going along with the flow, without voicing your own opinions and views. You may also feel a depreciated sense of superiority.
To dream that your computer has a mind of its own, denotes anxiety about technology and loss of control. You are feeling overwhelmed and feel that you are at the mercy of another.
To dream that a computer has a virus or has crashed, suggests that something in your life that is out of control. It may parallel something in your life that has come to a crashing end.
Does that mean that some day the obit will mean, "Carol's computer crashed and so did she"? Not funny? It was in the moment.
e
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
DREAMS Ancestors
Old Trunks picked this date, 26 August, as a day to talk about ancestors in our dreams and what they may mean because one of my grandmother's was born on this day in 1901. Although Mae wasn't my lineage grandmother, she was, for all practical purposes, a caring soul who was always there with her sweet, precious way of making things work.
When we are children, we do not judge adults on how intelligent they are. We are not drawn to them because of an IQ, rather because they have a type of soul that allows us to walk in and out of them without doors shutting. They are safety zones.
It is a day she should be toasted with her own depression glass and glads should be on the dining room table in memory of her. She worked hard and nursed her husband Phil for nine long years as a bed bound husband. While he napped, she sat in the dining room near the window and made doll clothes out of fine thread wearing his glasses because she could not afford her own.
What do we learn about dreaming of ancestors?
Ancestors
To dream about your ancestors, suggests that you are acknowledging your inherited traits and tradition. You may be trying to hold on to the past and preserve it.
Grandfather
To see your grandfather in your dream, symbolizes tradition, protection, wisdom, and a caring nature. Consider the qualities and characteristics that exist in your own grandfather.
Grandmother
To see your grandmother in your dream, represents nurturing, protection, and unconditional love. Consider the qualities and characteristics that exist in your own grandmother.
Grandparents
To see your grandparents in your dream, symbolizes love, security, wisdom and protection.
To dream that you are searching for your grandparents, signifies your search for love and protection. You may be regressing to childhood needs.
Until my sweet Thomas, I did regress. When I was frightened my mantra was grandma's lap. I would focus on the creak of the rocker as I sat in her lap as well as the aroma of baking bread and her humming. It seems odd that, after all those years, the rocker is silent all because I have love and protection in TCJ.
It's a good dream, nevertheless.
e
When we are children, we do not judge adults on how intelligent they are. We are not drawn to them because of an IQ, rather because they have a type of soul that allows us to walk in and out of them without doors shutting. They are safety zones.
It is a day she should be toasted with her own depression glass and glads should be on the dining room table in memory of her. She worked hard and nursed her husband Phil for nine long years as a bed bound husband. While he napped, she sat in the dining room near the window and made doll clothes out of fine thread wearing his glasses because she could not afford her own.
What do we learn about dreaming of ancestors?
Ancestors
To dream about your ancestors, suggests that you are acknowledging your inherited traits and tradition. You may be trying to hold on to the past and preserve it.
Grandfather
To see your grandfather in your dream, symbolizes tradition, protection, wisdom, and a caring nature. Consider the qualities and characteristics that exist in your own grandfather.
Grandmother
To see your grandmother in your dream, represents nurturing, protection, and unconditional love. Consider the qualities and characteristics that exist in your own grandmother.
Grandparents
To see your grandparents in your dream, symbolizes love, security, wisdom and protection.
To dream that you are searching for your grandparents, signifies your search for love and protection. You may be regressing to childhood needs.
Until my sweet Thomas, I did regress. When I was frightened my mantra was grandma's lap. I would focus on the creak of the rocker as I sat in her lap as well as the aroma of baking bread and her humming. It seems odd that, after all those years, the rocker is silent all because I have love and protection in TCJ.
It's a good dream, nevertheless.
e
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