Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 -( 27˚C / 81˚F — Muggy, warm and greying overhead in Atlantic Canada @ 4:45 pm )-

— I dreamed that police came to my door with a ‘respectful’ attitude and told me that, “Tom wants to thank you personally.”
— I tried to remember what anyone would want to thank me for- and thought maybe I had helped save a policeman’s life or something. I couldn’t quite picture ‘Tom’ in my head.
— I was then surrounded by reporters with microphones and smart phones as recording devices in my face and the first question I heard was, “What do you plan to do about the Federal Government?” & with everybody else shouting in my face at once I had to ask that guy to repeat the question.
— “What do you plan to do about the Federal Government?”
— The question seemed entirely absurd to me. I started waking up, rising through layers of consciousness, thinking, “The Federal Government doesn’t answer to me. Why would anybody ask me what I intend to do with it, or to it, or about it?”
— When I woke up the love of my life was watching the CBC Network News channel and everybody was buzzing about the fact that the parliament had been dissolved and the Prime Minister had asked the Governor General to declare that it was now time to begin a longer than usual campaign season for Federal Elections to be held on October 19th. — The anniversary of the day in 1985 that I finally quit smoking for good, The day before my mother’s birthday-
— And I wondered if the questions I had heard had not been directed toward me, but had been asked of ‘Tom’. And would that be Tom Mulcair? Did I just have a dream in which I went into the future and saw Tom Mulcair declared Prime Minister of Canada? And if so- Was that this world or a parallel one?
————— Jim


