had my first midsummer snow dream last night, though unfortunately i did not write it down immediately after waking up so i've forgotten most of it already. from my vague recollection i can recall being on a long journey by foot and stoping at several houses along the way, but there was a feeling of foreboding doom that i could not discern until at one of the last houses i looked outside and saw a blizzard that had already buried the earth in a deep snow while my back was turned
i tend to interpret dreams involving snow during the summer months as a sort of portent that describes a certain languishing of my subconscious about the current state of things, particularly in this case my frustrations with being caught up in so many things (yet again p:) this year that i've hardly been able to improve the land at all, constantly being away helping others or doing work. a more pressing interpretation, however, regards the lingering feeling of dread throughout the dream and the sudden appearance of snow everywhere while my back was turned, swallowing everything i was just familiar with in an instant. the long, harsh winters here are an ever-present reminder of the inevitability of both change and death, and especially of change arising through death. no man decides when the year's first blizzard will come, but every man must face its freezing embrace whether he is ready for it or not. as i continue to age and time continues to pass on and on irrespective of my place in it, i've been forced more and more to meditate on this reality and reconcile it with my desire for comfortable constancy and stability, my desire for linearity in intention and in goals
those mortifying words of solomon in the second chapter of his reflections on his own life have haunted me these five years, but at last i feel as though i am beginning to disabuse myself of the naive assumptions that i unknowingly came here with; however, even now i am still mocked subconsciously by the conscious deterioration of the idealism i once had in throwing everything away and starting anew, that mockery appearing to me in the form of these damned midsummer snow dreams. the day that i dream of snow without the lingering dread will be the day that i am certain that through philosophy i have wholly conquered these childish preconceptions, and ultimately the fear of death altogether through sanctification of the mind and body
