Encore: White Feather Finery
Dreams, Synchronicities, and Celebrations
A Blog Post in (more than) 3-Installments
This post is the Final Installment (yes, I really do mean final this time) in a series about how dreams and dream imagery help guide me through waking life.
To read the 1st installment of “Wedding for One: Dreams, Synchronicities, and Celebrations” in which our protagonist dreams of receiving a wedding proposal…but receives a business proposal to become Director of the Institute of Dream Studies instead … click here.
For the 2nd Installment, in which the protagonist receives a sign – from a Spider – that she is on the right path, click here.
You can read the 3rd Installment, in which our protagonist’s “Wedding for One” dream turns into a date for one here.
THE FINAL INSTALLMENT:
Encore! White Feather Finery
After my mother’s death last spring, every time I saw a feathery seedpod float through the air (and somehow there were many more that season than I ever remember seeing before) I was certain that my mother’s spirit was close by.
I remembered this as I sat in my second-row seat at a concert recently. I was out on a solo date with myself, enjoying Jane Siberry’s music. And now she was delivering a lyric in which she said that every time she saw a feather drift by, she felt her beloved near her.
These words brought back to mind all of those floating feathery messengers from the spring when I lost my mother. Tears filled my eyes.
Also, I couldn’t help but notice how all of the themes of my recent dreams were coming together now, especially with this reminder of the feathers that marked the season of loss during which the recurring wedding dreams had begun.
And now, Siberry’s show was ending. She came to the piano for her encore, and began her final song.
And wouldn’t you know it? She sang k.d. lang’s “Love is Everything.” Which, as it turns out, was one of the songs on the CD that I played again and as I sat at my mother’s bedside while she lay dying. What’s more, it is the song that I chose to include in the photo slide show I created after her death, as a memorial and a tribute to her life that was so filled with love and beauty.
As I like to say, dreams multi-task. As do synchronicities.
I’d had the sense back in June, when Justina proposed the directorship of the Institute for Dream Studies to me, that my mother had a hand in it—that from where she sat in Heaven she was helping guide me; that she was smiling at and through me, and that she wanted only for my best dreams to come true.
And so, the proposal has been made and accepted. And now it’s time for me to step into my commitment to my dreams, to my love of teaching, and the creative possibilities of helping others to make dreams come true.
It’s just what happens when a girl follows her dreams, and says, “I do.”
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Hear Jane Siberry singing “Love is Everything.” (Have a tissue handy.)
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This is the final post in
“Wedding for One: Dreams, Synchronicities, and Celebration”
A blog post in (more than) 3 Installments
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But you never do know when it comes to dreams and synchronicities
… There may still be more to come …