AFTER A TALK (October 15, 2014)
I dreamt that I was sitting in a café with my beloved after a talk I gave. The talk went well, but I do not remember what it was about. My beloved and I were very close, and we hugged and kissed lovingly. And then a young woman approached us. In her late teens, she wanted to meet me. She was delighted by my talk, she told me. She spoke in Croatian, but then she mentioned that she actually lived in Slovenia, and so we switched to Slovene. The young woman delighted me, too. She looked bright and open. Her eyes were fully alive. Short and skinny, she was far from beautiful, but her intelligence and demeanor were beautiful in themselves. It was a joy to talk to her. I introduced her to my beloved and told her that we were together for sixteen years already. They exchanged a few words while I was hugging and kissing my beloved. When I woke up, it was time to get out of bed. My beloved left for her office about an hour earlier. I immediately thought of my daughter, who will be nineteen in a couple of days. Was it her I saw in my dream? Amazingly, the last time I saw her was eleven years ago! By now, I have no idea how she looks. As for my talk, it must be the presentation of my book on climate change at the Belgrade Book Fair. Sadly, my beloved will not be with me at the time. Blessed dreams recognize neither time nor place.