THAT DAY

I need to deal with money. I inherited some a few months ago, I researched social/ethical investment funds and picked one I like (Ariel), but I just haven't acted.

Oh well, does it matter what I do? What any individual does? I bike, I avoid driving, I insulated the house, I put up solar panels, but a hundred million jerks aren't conserving a bit. They vote Tea Party and call global warming a liberal pinko myth. It's November, and so hot I'm sweaty in just a T shirt and shorts. I guess they're mythical shorts.

In the evening, our band the Krelkins meet to practice a new song-set. We were stuck for months, never quite playing our own compositions right--just too complex for a trio! But our rough new four-person arrangements already sound better to me. Adding a fourth is working.

THAT NIGHT

Businessmen now come with snouts. Not quite trunks--prehensile foot- long honkers. Necks too have gone half-giraffe. And yet despite their newlyfound schnozola-height, giralephants drive squinky little cars-- a termite-swarm of Volkswagen Beetles. You wouldn't think a biz- giraffe could jam in a Bug, but they just slide back the sunroof and pop that snorkel up. O they're autopup- peteers. 'Raffish angels, driving such underpowered bodies. What can they do in snow? Brrroofless! But then winter will never wild-white again, thanks to snouted businessmen. Bless you men, O climate-denying, in the wind your nostrils flying...

NOTES NEXT MORNING

• The businesscritters echo an old dream of a Stiltdoe and Cenbuck that warned me "time to take care of business." The changes it triggered revolutionized my life, let me quit working for others! So the businessbeasts' return warns I need to spend time again on finances--like it or not.
• Snouted giants in efficient cars: a hopeful image. Even energy pigs can be weaned off fossil fuel! In the 2010 election California rejected the Tea Party. Eventually the rest of the USA will quit trying tantrums, grow up, and start the hard work of modernizing. Eventually.
• Giraffe neck, sunroof: from a surreal song by my friend Mike. Flying High opens with a giraffe in a limo, head rising from the open roof. The dream's suggesting we add this song to our new repertoire, I think.
• ACTION: Propose adding Flying High to the Krelkins repertoire. And... act on my social-investment research! The right wing may paralyze US politics and worsen global warming, but I'm still responsible for using my resources constructively.

NOTE YEARS LATER

I did as the dream urged--got off my butt, invested my inheritance in socially responsible funds... which doubled in two years. I suddenly went from poor to rich.

Dreams can be comically surreal, yet still bear quite practical advice.

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