The hawk is me, of course. The cold snowy ridge with great views is how the Stone Age of personal computers (for me, 1985-88) felt to me--the first Macs I saw (beige boxes with black and white screens) were colorless and chill. I'm a chaotic thinker and often remember my dreams gradually, scenes out of sequence, so being able to cut and paste my dream-writing helped a lot--for all practical purposes I couldn't write readable dream-narratives before the Mac. So as a writer, I was grateful to Apple.

But as an artist, I longed for color.

And then, in 1988, I got an Amiga and reveled in rainbows. It was like this flame-flowering tree in the digital snow. The ice age was melting and the modern era had begun. Crude and messy, as things always are during a thaw, but begun.

2020 DREAM-CORRECTION

For years I've been slowly transcribing my old dream-journals. Still have 1985-1991 to go. But I just stumbled on an entry that shows the image above was not a fantasy painted soon after I got my first computer in 1988, then merely touched up in 1990 as I thought from the date in the upper left. It really was from 1990, and was inspired by a flying dream I'd completely forgotten! No wonder; just one of six that night (1990/2/14); nearly 1000 words.

In Sauron's Beachhead, I was a gull, soaring high over the shores of Middle Earth as Sauron attacked by sea. At last I descended to the beach, and to human form, to sabotage Sauron's tanks as they landed. Stopped them sweeping inland to overrun Rohan...

Why a gull not a hawk? A pun. You see, in the dream my sight wasn't hawk-sharp; poor even for a gull. BUT... I had sharp-eyed gullfriends who told me what they saw--what I could not.

That pun had meaning. I was taking a dance class; that day, several girl friends (plus the class's teacher) had told me "You think you're ugly, but it's brainwashing. Your body image is false!"

Trust your sharp-eyed gullfriends.

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