Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

We felt so strongly about it, that at first we considered turning in the tickets and getting a refund, but later I suggested that Bertha and Mary Alice go, at least for the Hayden Symphony, and after all, there might be moments in the Shostakovich work that would not be too boring. So it was decided.Tues. Dec. 8 – 1942Dream Fragments – 1.; In our backyard at home. Half-buried in the mouldering (sic) earth I found a large old earthen ware teapot. Opening it, I discovered that it contained one rooster and three hens, which I supposed, had been stuffed into it, alive, two or three days before. Horrified, I dumped them out on the ground. At first they seemed devoid of life, but presently they began to stir feebly, and finally managed to struggle to their feet. Staggering about a little they departed into the yard next door and disappeared.I went around to the front of the house, and entered the front door. There, tho the hour was three A.M., I saw mother and Frances, sitting alone, staring into space; and it seemed to me that never was loneliness like theirs.; 2 – Coming from a house in some obscure town, earl in the morning, before light. In front of the house, I was shocked to discover a horse & buggy I had hired the night before, still standing in the street. Altho it was sleeting and bitterly cold, the patient horse, a smallish light gray mare, was standing just as I had apparently