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Meteor shower tonight! Annual August event! Had breakfast with son from SoCal and his family this morning. The newest granddaughter is a real livewire. Incredibly happy kid! A total joy!

I was partially there--I was experiencing symptoms from the excitement--makes it difficult for me stay present. Came home and slept for nearly two hours.

Dreamed last night about being in a theater. We were being shown a film. We were supposed to walk through the theater, locate our seats, and return to the lobby. We would then be released to find our way back to the seats. When we were released, I charged up the stairs, but took a wrong turn. I ended up approaching my seat from a different direction. As I neared the seats, I saw that my seat had been co-opted to seat a young child. There were three kids sitting next to each other. I took another seat and waited for the film to start.

Feeling out of it today. Can't get settled. My son showed me a poem I'd written right before he was born. A poem from nearly 40 years ago! It was good--it reflected my "voice," which was there so long ago. They found it as they were cleaning out stuff to move my ex-wife back to the Bay Area. Mysteries and Memories--lost in the mists of time!

Received a note from my friend, P, that triggered a surprising set of images and realizations. She had mentioned something about a person being "cold sober." I had an immediate thought about how I prefer to be with people who are sober. When I wondered why, I got images of my parents and their friends, who were seldom sober. I realized that I'm uncomfortable with people who are not sober--I feel like they are "unreliable" and "unpredictable--mostly unreliable. These thoughts and realizations flashed through me when I read the note--just like a meteor. Enjoy the showers tonight!