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Fifty more days and it will be 10 years since I started this daily blather. 10 years! Where did all those days go? Up in smoke? Not even that! Just gone!

Gait and balance class today! It was more strenuous than usual. She's amping up the intensity. After class and after my session with GH, reading a book to him, I came away zapped. I ended up going out for some food and that helped restore the balance some.

Dreamed last night that I had gone to a dangerous section of a town. The town, or the world, had two sections. The sections were like layers on a cake. The dangerous section was on top, there was a stony middle section, and a layer on the bottom where things were more civil. The "world" looked like a hamburger floating in space. I had gone from the lower section to the upper to learn how things were done in the upper layer. I had traveled there by circumnavigating around the outer surfaces of the layers. There were ways to move directly, through the layers, to the two outer sections. But doing so required a guide who knew how to go through the labyrinthine middle section. I had a gun with me. I was talking to one of the upper layer people and he was asking me what I was doing there. He told me that I was likely t get hurt. I assured him that I knew how to use the weapon, and that I could take care of myself. There were several scenes where I was being challenged by bands of people who lived on the upper level. I stayed there for quite a while, but eventually went back to the lower level. Everything in that level was more peaceful but rather bland. The dream was chaotic and puzzling as I made my way through the upper layer. I was happy to finally get back to the lower section.

Watched a Mongolian film tonight--Cave of the Yellow Dog. Like other Mongolian films, the landscape was vast and spectacular. The landscape in that region of Mongolia is a character in its own right. The camera followed the daily routine of an actual family of nomadic people--documenting what they do and how they do it. Overlaid, was a reincarnation myth about a dog that lived in a cave and how that myth related to life. It is a warm, moving film that provides an insight into the customs and activities of a vanishing people.

Movement class tomorrow! Looking forward to it, as always! Let there be motion!