Dreams and Things

I spent my morning as I always do by eating a cup of yogurt and drinking a glass of juice at my computor reading the Washington Post after having scanned my email.I went into my art studio at about 9:00AM to work on my painting that I call Medusa. It's a femaile torso surrounded by flaming hair, coiled in bursts of primary colors. The body will be an off-white color called Parchment and its highlights in total black.  I received a text from Yaffa telling me it was a "Floyd Day" meaning that she and her mother were planning on visiting her brother Floyd who is permanently institutionalized in the psychiatric ward of Laguna hospital. She wanted to know if I would like to follow along as I usually do. I told her I was waiting for a workman from the complex Freedom West where I live to arrive. I did not know when they would arrive only that it would be between nine in the morning and five in the afternoon. So I couldn't make a commitment to leave at 3:00PM which is whe...