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Magic Carpet Ride

March 7, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Sleep eludes me. No matter when I go to sleep, I wake around 3:00 a.m. then toss and think and write in my head for at least an hour before finally drifting back off.

Tuesday night I slept all night. I slept deep and hard and my mind was filled with bizarre dreams.

At home in Mississippi County, the pages of my book flew from my hands and blew across perfect rows of soybeans. Sheets of white paper, my words, scattered in all directions and settled between furrows. The pages were just beyond my reach and impossible to retrieve, because I was flying over the soybean field on a magic carpet.

No one had ever taught me to drive a magic carpet…

The carpet had a mind of its own.

Yes, this was my dream, vivid and crazy.

No, I was not drinking. Not a drop.

When I awoke the next morning, I had a burst blood vessel in my eye.

Related?

I think so.

talya

Musical Pairing:

Magic Carpet Ride, Steppenwolf

Do you vision board?

February 9, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Apparently we should each have a Vision Board. No, this is not the same as Pinterest, although possibly a bit related…

I had never heard of vision boarding until Bob Barnett explained it to me a few weeks ago. A visual representation of your dreams, goals, heart’s desires, you literally glue pictures, words, drawings, photos, anything and everything to a poster board. A reminder of where you want to be in the next year, five years, ten years, so on…

A bit old school, no?

The idea behind this is simple. If your board is created of images that fill you with passion, you will attract these things. Your dreams will become reality. That’s a bit deep, but I do believe envisioning something is the first step to realization.

My ninth grade Home Economics class made vision boards. We were soooo ahead of our time. I remember cutting pictures from Teen Magazine, gluing on faces of girls with hair ironed stick straight, Jontue perfume ads, adjectives I hoped would someday describe me, pictures of the type house I wanted to live in…

I bet my ninth grade vision board is still home in my bedroom closet deep inside the Batcave.

I don’t yet have a title for the book I am writing, but I have a header that prints on each page. Wishful thinking? Vision boarding?

Last year at the Baylor Bookstore, I snapped a picture of the shelf containing books written by Baylor graduates. I suppose it’s the closest thing I’ve done to vision boarding. I look at the picture often and think someday I shall have a book on that shelf…

Publications by Baylor Graduates:)

talya

Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Musical Pairing:
Dream On, Aerosmith

too much to dream

October 9, 2012 By Talya Tate Boerner

Do you dream? I suppose everyone dreams, but some say they can’t remember their dreams. I dream all night every night. Crazy, vivid dreams, in color and often with music.

What would Freud think?

Two nights ago I tubed down the Rio Grande River
on a white inner tube, the sort that little kids use before learning to swim. It was just after dawn and the water was cold and fast. During this adventure, I made a stop at an old museum near the bank of the river. Two stories with wide-plank wooden floors, the museum was filled with Al Capone artifacts. Back in the water, I finished my tubing trip and dream with a splash as the Rio Grande fed into a secluded cove at Lake Norfork.

Usually I can tie my dreams to something that happened the prior day. Something someone said, something I saw or a fleeting thought that passed through my head.

I did recently drive over to see the Mississippi River at the Osceola River Port. Maybe it reminded me of the Rio Grande? On Saturday afternoon, I made a quick trip inside the Lepanto Museum while at the Terrapin Derby. And of course, the Bat Cave is filled with artifacts – not exactly Al Capone related, but Momma does have gangster tendencies.