Art / Time is honey
I have a dream. Admittedly not one quite as profound as that of Martin Luther King, but a recurring dream all the same. In it I am walking through a vast expanse of forest - birds chirping innocenty as a gentle breeze blows my hair back alluringly like a still from a Wella Balsam commercial. It’s tranquil and breathtakingly beautiful and I walk, no, skip, down a well-trodden path scattering tiny pieces of bread randomly behind me as a reminder of where I’ve been. Suddenly my sense of serenity is disturbed by a slight rustle in the bushes beside. Inquisitive, I bend down - loosening my grip for a moment on the right hand of my companion, Keira Knightley (hey, it’s my dream) - and without warning a posse of rather pissed off squirrels leap out of the darkness and set upon me with rare ferocity. They seem convinced that I’m secretly hoarding nuts in my pockets. Their leader tells me so in a voice not unlike Kevin Arnold. ‘I’m not!’ I yell. ‘They just naturally bulge like that’. But then I reach for my jacket pocket and my hand falls upon some familar lumpy objects. Walnuts! And not just one of them, but a thousand of the damn things. It’s like that scene in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe with the endless supply of Turkish Delight. Only now it’s walnuts and a team of insatiable squirrels are frantically ransacking my pockets in search of them. At which point I usually wake up, heart racing and chewing on a rubber chicken. Man, I gotta stop eating cheese before I go to bed. [artwork by Liz McKay]
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