California? (Dream)

[helen99]

Last night I dreamed that my mother told me that dad was selling our houses and they and I were packing up and taking a plane to "California".

When I realized that they were going to take a plane rather than drive, because it would be "a forty-hour drive and we don't have time for that," I started screaming that I refuse to ever get on an airplane again in this lifetime. I also asked "what about rialian"? Where is aekiy going to live? But they said they'd have to find an alternative because, you see, we were going. I also asked about my job, but was told that none of that mattered. We were moving to California and that was that.

The whole prospect disturbed me much more than a deceased person trying to sell our houses.

California - I've always wished to somehow be a part of that hotbed of ideas where it all seems to start. I have also wished we would have some of that attitude here. But it also represents death - falling into the ocean. Secession from the union. The unknown. The jumping off point. California...

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[keyake.livejournal.com]

Failing... resist urge to sing...

California here we come~ Right back where we started from~ Californiaaaa....

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Heh.

I'm not sure where that pull comes from that keeps tugging at me (it has all my life - but not by way of my mom, who would never dream of going there). Maybe it's from the North tip of CA along the coast somewhere. Or maybe even farther north of that. I don't know where it's coming from but it's over on the lefthand side of the world somewhere and it's pretty strong. The things that scare me about going there (job, security, etc) are only the bars of a prison I've constructed to keep myself 'safe'.

Safety is not all it's quacked up to be, and nothing is safe anyway. The end of all fear is the only true freedom...

[rialian.livejournal.com]

===If you ever want to, we can road-tip sometime. I personally want to get up to the Northwest again, but there are well enough people to see in California..(grins)

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Maybe some time...

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

California sounds like a nice place, unless you're a conservative.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Nuh uh - they're happy too. They got Arnie...

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

Kinda remings me of a rather bittersweet Stan Rogers song about the state, or rather people moving there... Which I cannot find the lyrics to - I tried...

Hmmmm.... Maybe, for some reason California seems a safer place than the DC area right now, and there's this subconscious desire to get out while you still can.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Maybe so - but California seems an iffy place to retreat to at best. I'd probably be more likely to choose somewhere less flamboyant as a safe haven if I was looking for that. But I kind of think of safety as a kind of death. Nah - if the world as I know it is destroyed, I want to go with it.

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

"Here" is less flamboyant... When I think safety, especially in this specific instance, I was looking more at the wingnut factor than anything else. Safety from that, though there may not be much, especially in the continental US, excluding Alaska... That said, I'm not sure how safe the Maritimes would be either, especially if the ice caps on both Antartica and Greenland (the one we really have to look out for) melt. It was pointed out that NS would essentially become an island, and there is no infrastructure in that eventuality. The comparisson was made with Cuba, actually...

[helen99.livejournal.com]

>NS would essentially become an island

Yes, the wingnut factor is pretty bad, but not as bad as it is in the midwest, for example - those people are nuts. A friend was driving through the midwest on her way to Seattle a few years ago, and at a gas station she was accosted by two men who had seen her bumper sticker which read "Namarie".

When she returned from paying for gas, she found one of these fine gentlemen peeing on her car. She yelled for him to stop, whereupon he started cursing at her and telling her how much he hated "those traitors, the French" (the French had disagreed with the invasion of Iraq, and the Bushwipes went off the deep end over that).

She said, "That's not French, you idiot that's Elvish from Tolkien! Don't you read?" This just made the guy madder, because he probably didn't understand a word of it except maybe "idiot". Naturally, he charged at her

She made it to the car, but he tried to prevent her from closing the door with his foot. She didn't think she would get any help from the people at the gas station - they were all wingnuts from the looks of them. She decided to go for her knife. Instead, she grabbed a green and white striped dildo by mistake. I do not know why said implement was where her knife usually was, or why the choice of color scheme - but whatever works...

The guy was so shocked that he took a step back. That was the opening she needed - she slammed the door and high-tailed it out of there.

I'm really, really glad she pulled the dildo instead of the knife - she may still be in a jail somewhere out there if she had pulled the knife. I'm sure they would have favored him.

So anyway, the point of all this was.... Some areas, while probably safer from tsunamis and nukes, is probably less safe from predatory, mentally ill wingnuts than DC, which is kind of cosmopolitan in a doofy kind of way.

Very doofy, actually.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

The fact that the major polluters don't care about the people who live on the coasts and islands is just one more indication that anyone could become "collateral damage" at any time. "We couldn't stop polluting, you see, because the internal combustion engine helps a lot of people live the lives they're used to. The coasts submerging is the price we pay".

It is a well-published fact that the water levels are rising, that the coast of Greenland is breaking up, and that island communities are submerging. But instead of treating this as the emergency it really is, and ceasing all pollution in order to reverse (not slow down, reverse) the effects of the past 100 years, they discredit and fire scientists who publish these findings, and then continue to deregulate pollution as much as possible.

Argh. Back to the drawing board, which consists of me trying to use my A/C and car less frequently (it get's horribly muggy in DC, and it's less trouble to take my car places).

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

Major polluters don't care about anything, coastal or not, especially after having seen "The Inconvienient Truth"... We'll only be able to use the "ostrich" approach for so long before we won't have any choice.

And I know "muggy" full well, believe me, even if it seems rather fall-like at the moment.