From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, January 17, 2020 at 10:18:33 AM UTC-6, sandydo...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Find myself on a platform like boats are anchored to.   
      
   Lots of visual options here:  dock, pier, wharf, slip, depends upon the size   
   of the boat / ship in question.  Note that a "slip" is typically like a pier   
   only with "covered" construction, like rows of open parking garages, with the   
   construction built    
   upon either barrels or LARGE blocks of Styrofoam.  A dock is kinda like a   
   small gas station, where boats can pull up to the dock, get gas, groceries,   
   pay their monthly or yearly slip rental, etc.   
      
   > There are several of these platforms, two with buildings across a 30 ft   
   expanse of unpainted boards.  There is dirty water under these with the sun   
   shinning down on semi rough water.  There are lots of oriental people on these   
   platforms, like it is a    
   flea market where they are selling items, some on tables and some on the   
   platform.   
      
   Certainly gives me the impression of Chinese "junks"— they're like floating   
   cities of boats used to maintain what would otherwise be an urban population,   
   only on the water instead.   
      
   > I am standing at the end of a platform behind 5 or 6 doctors wearing white   
   masks and white coats.   
      
   Reminds me of Beijing (their air pollution is beyond catastrophic.)   
      
   > Every one seems scared and we are all looking for something.  I see a canoe   
   about 12 inches long and walk over and pick it up.  It is made of bamboo but   
   these orientals think it is a bomb and they are all afraid.  We are all   
   feeling the fear.  Next I    
   see a magenta knitted glove with pink strips, I also pick it up and hand it to   
   a lady that has the other one in a stack of for sale items.  We are all   
   waiting for the bomb to explode when I wake up.   
   >                       Sandy$   
      
   OK, so this bit about a canoe made little-to-no sense, until I thought of the   
   historic trade agreement Trump JUST made with China.  In other words, the   
   Chinese *culture* is about to experience the explosion of American trade. (The   
   canoe is a much older,    
   semi-Asian relative to the Chinese, as Native Americans are thought to have   
   crossed over from Russia / Asia on a land bridge thousands of years ago.    
   Thus, the canoe is of a more specific identification to them than would be an   
   eagle.  Also, the eagle    
   has always been somewhat protected, whereas the European/American concept   
   somewhat "exploded" upon the Native Americans, just as it is about to explode   
   into China.   
      
   FYI, interesting side note:  Trump *recently* became the FIRST national   
   representative to sell rice to China!  The guy's a friggin' legend! :-)   
      
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