A dream: #1 — We are living in an upper apartment. We have just adopted a small boy, whom Joe and Ruth had formerly had but had sent us, as they could no longer take care of him.
Exaggerate darkening of Trees to black at top with a white outline next it –
Trees have a lacy edge at sunset time – at twilight, they commence to thicken — the leaves stand out clearly in partly isolated & massed rhythms. At the last light, the rhythms become fewer and heavier – at complete darkness the trees are solid silhouettes except perhaps for a solid odd shaped detached mass or two —
At an eclipse of the moon, the sky became a leaden grey –
Eventually, at 4:30 I had a dream. I was out in a woods; interwoven with the trees were rooms of an old barn. Pal was with me. Suddenly he became alert, then very excited...
There ought to be a love so natural that it does not hinder the artistic life—love should be merely one of the unconscious functions of life—
A curious dream, only a fragment of which I remember – I was shaving myself and my reflection in the mirror expanded into a hillside, all covered over with shaggy black hair...
Heavy fog envelopes the whole earth. Coming along at pine hollow our first sight of the sun is the golden spot its rays make in the fog. We soon see the sun himself, a rose gold glow in the sky.
A dream - Going next door (to Bengert’s) clad only in my underwear. What my errand was I do not remember, but I was hoping to sneak past their house without being discovered...
My thoughts are aimless and light not long at any place –
A hot day, but low humidity, — All day on “Summer Solstice” bringing it to a stage where I can begin to judge it [as] a whole...
A dream - Out in the country, calling at a farmhouse in which lived the Andersens. Mrs. A to my surprise (for always it seemed was I given a royal welcome) was not very cordial...