From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   Just a quick "shout-out" to my mother, who's 93. ❤️  (Old age ain't for   
   sissies!)   
      
   Well, I had something of a *minor* epiphany this morning, something that's   
   been "brewing on the back burner" for some time.  People may have come across   
   themes regarding a son leaving his home, taking a wife, as a way of "leaving   
   the mother" to start a    
   new family with a new son (who has a new mother) although there's the   
   "original story" of "Adam and Eve" who became one *prior* to their leaving the   
   Garden of Eden, although the chronological sequence involves their leaving   
   *prior to* the births of Cain    
   and Abel.   
      
   Well, I find myself *somewhat* between a rock and a hard place:  I'm my   
   mother's caretaker, which makes for an horrendous choice of walking away from   
   a "steady life here," thus "leaving her to the wolves" in order to woo Gina,   
   or to remain here at the    
   expense of *potentially* renewing a relationship with Gina.   
      
   Of course, I'm committed to a path that leads *to* marriage *with* Gina, and   
   part of that path involves listening to her own words, "I want to marry a   
   wealthy man."  One has to ask oneself, "How wealthy would one be if one were   
   to forsake one's own    
   mother to gain a wife?"  (It would seem that the loss of integrity would "be a   
   deal-breaker.")   
      
   Regardless, this is one of those things that I've simply had to "lay at the   
   Good Lord's feet" as, according to theological / religious exegesis /   
   understanding, that's how one allows God to "solve the problem."   
      
   Personally, I'm of the opinion (per the dream I had back around the latter   
   half of the 1980s) that Gina will receive a miraculous dream and come to me of   
   her own accord.  (I'm fairly confident of the word "miraculous" being   
   appropriate in this scenario.)   
      
   At any rate, I did have some type of a *minor* Gina-oriented dream last night   
   / this morning, wherein the dreamer is in a dark place, as if possibly seated   
   in a room, and is somehow aware that Gina is very near to him, behind him, if   
   he'd only turn and    
   look, he could possibly embrace her in his arms and life could go forwards /   
   resume, in a positive, productive fashion.  (That scenario could *certainly*   
   lead to a *very* "wealthy" future!!)   
      
   What is noticeable in the dream is the dreamer's mental state of anguish of   
   some sort.  Dream ends, clarity "dark" (per the setting and the dreamer's   
   sense of anguish.)   
      
   In another dream, the dreamer is located in what appears to be my childhood   
   bedroom, although the room somehow feels a shade larger than it actually is in   
   real life—  Perhaps more like a 12'x12' rather than an 8'x10'.   
      
   Along with the dreamer is a female (similar to Shannon Woodfin from various   
   periods throughout my life) and another male, similar in character to my   
   friend Larry from back in his college days.   
      
   The thing about Shannon is, she comes from a family in the funeral business,   
   and although I'm unaware of her married name, she's following in her (late)   
   father's footsteps with respect to the funeral home (at which my mother has   
   already set up her final    
   arrangements, a few years back when she was better able to get around more   
   easily.)   
      
   In the dream, there is some activity regarding two objects *sort of like*   
   possibly a pearl and a diamond, that they involve something of (monetary)   
   value, and yet they are regarded much as trinkets, such as something one might   
   leave out on a counter or    
   up on a dresser/bureau in a dish.  (In the dream, they were *just barely*   
   slightly luminous, and had a shape a bit like that round, peanut-buttery   
   cereal, "Ka-Boom.")   
      
   There was a very tiny bit of discussion, at the end of which, it was as if   
   Shannon were ushering us out to leave, when the dreamer suddenly realized,   
   "This is *my* room—" at which point Shannon was the one leaving, whereas   
   Larry was either at the point    
   of staying over as a guest or possibly leaving— that was left undetermined   
   as the dream ended, clarity 8-ish, to 8- (practically "average.")   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)