…Asleep in Their Beds

Last night I dreamed of the power of a holiday loan: I gave three boys and their dad baseball tickets to five East Coast stadiums. I gave beginning, intermediate, and advanced obedience lessons to a very cute mutt. Bought CDs for my mother (the money kind, not the music kind), and a hip to my brother. I watched a dolphin kiss my daughter’s cheek as they swam off the shore of a beautiful Pacific island. I gave my mother-in-law the priceless gift of peace with death. My neighbors weedless lawns and grandkids and nephews stronger magic powers than Harry. I subsidized my colleagues for three-day workweeks. And as always, shoes, shoes, shoes to every child I met during one snowy night.