Had a crazy dream about turtles this morning. I had a pet turtle that looked like a turtle puppet BrilliantEditor gave me many years ago. The turtle was always moving forward so I'd pick him and bring him back to me and he'd start again.
It was an apparently happy companionship.
I dreamed that the turtle and I had gone grocery shopping and we were in the bulk food section of Green Star co-op grocery. I was busy buying lentils of two different colors. The lentils were kept in carboard cylinders, like massive Quaker Oats boxes.
I was listening to a man complain about how much he hated lentils and dried corn and how he wished he could eat something else but he knew it was good for him.
I put the lentil containers away and put my bags of lentils in the grocery cart.
I couldn't find my turtle.
!
I started looking around frantically. I couldn't find him anywhere. People in the store were helping me and a few of them seemed to be from my high school Participation in Government class. I looked and looked and finally shrieked, "Do you think I lost him in the lentils?"
Debbie, from my high school class, said, "Dotty, he's not in the lentils."
I looked in the boxes anyway and she was right.
I had just turned around in despair when I saw him in a big box of pale green styrofoam peanuts. He surfaced and then dove back in. I scooped him out and was so happy that I found him and that he'd gone swimming!
And then the phone rang and I now have a job as a substitute teacher.
Good, sweet turtle. I think I'll name him Lentil.
Posted by dotty at May 31, 2005 08:22 AM