Songs Are the Flowers of Truth

            On Friday morning I dreamed about a family consisting of a daughter with close-cropped hair and her parents. I may have been the daughter, the observer or both. The family has no hope but in terrorism until someone gives them two pieces of luggage. One piece is an old style large suitcase and the other is a cylindrical canister with a shoulder strap that the daughter uses. Inside of these containers are a large variety of beautiful flowers, which they make into bouquets. The giver says, “I will return to see how you have used these flowers of truth."

            I woke up and got up to pee. When I got back to bed I had a related dream in which I learned that the flowers of truth are songs.

            The dreams put me in a good mood and on top of that the humidity was much lower than usual and so my guitar didn’t go out of tune as much during song practice.

            I continued to edit “J’suis snob" by Boris Vian on my Christian's Translations blog. Maybe it would have been quicker to just fiddle with the html when I first tried to post it.

            I worked out the chords to “Oh mon amour baiser” by Serge Gainsbourg. I ran through the song in French with my guitar but when I started doing it in English I realized that I hadn't translated the extra lyrics that I'd found.

            I slid my couch out to the middle of the room and pulled the white bookshelf away from the wall so I could wash the northwest corner of my living room floor. I cleaned an area twelve boards wide and a little over a metre long. But now that it’s bright there the bookshelf looks soiled and crappy, so next I'll have to take everything off the bookshelf and wash that. I think it’ll take two more weeks to finish the living room.

            I had a chicken drumstick for lunch and some yogourt.

            In the afternoon I did some exercises and then took a very slow bike ride in easy gears so as not to strain my knee. It’s not as much fun to ride slow, but maybe I'll get to a point where I'll consider it a race and I'll strive to be the slowest person on the road, getting pissed off if someone allows me to pass them.

            I got caught up on my journal.

            I received five offers for work in October and November at OCADU but could only take two of them because of my course schedule.

            I did a little more work on my review of David Jure's "The Patient English".

            I weighed 90.3 kilos in the evening, so my weight hasn’t really changed from three months ago despite the fact that I haven't taken any long bike rides this summer.

I had three little potatoes, two drumsticks and gravy for dinner while watching Wagon Train.

This story begins with a small group of soldiers and one Native woman being attacked by what appears to be a Cherokee raiding party but they are Lupon in disguise. This might be a made up tribe because I can’t a tribe with a name that even resembles that. The wagon train men hear the gunfire and so Flint and two other men ride to investigate. They help to fight off the raiders. The commanding officer and two other soldiers are killed, leaving Lieutenant Avery and two of his men. They are on their way to deliver a treaty to Chief Dark Cloud of the Lupon and they are escorting his daughter Mokai from Washington. The Major tells Flint to travel with the soldiers and make sure the treaty gets to Dark Cloud. Avery is now in command but he does not treat Mokai very well. One of the soldiers, Private Sumter keeps looking for opportunities to sexually assault Mokai until Flint intervenes. They fight and when Sumter pulls a gun, Avery shoots him. We learn that Lupon brave Running Horse is leading the raids with the intention of preventing the treaty from reaching Dark Cloud because he wants to become chief and he wants war. Mokai confronts Avery about his unfriendliness. She says that if she and he cannot be friends how can their two peoples? Avery gradually softens towards her but he has a secret agenda regarding her father. Fifteen years before Dark Cloud slaughtered Avery’s family and so he is contemplating revenge. Flint senses this and warns him that preventing future deaths is more important than his revenge. There are several raids and Avery is the only soldier left by the time they reach the Lupon village. Avery does not kill Dark Cloud and he and Mokai exchange gifts.

It was kind of a lame story with some very fake looking and talking Natives.

Mokai was played by Susan Kohner, who is the daughter of Lupita Tovar. Susan was nominated for an Academy Award for her supporting role in “Imitation of Life”. She gave up acting to raise a family in the early 60s.