Dreamways

“She has chronicled the 20th century’s utopian search for defining ideas — be they communism, feminism or psychology — and the fallout that such ideas have had on the lives of women trying to find an identity of their own.” So begins a tribute to Doris Lessing the day after she was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. (“Tracing the Internal Tug of War at the Heart of Human Life” by Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, October 12, 2007). This summarization of Ms Lessing’s works is very much the realm of dreams, dreams as ideals, dreams as goals and aspirations.  read more »

KURT VONNEGUT (1922 – 11 Apr 2007). A quintessential novelist of the 1960’s has died. A voice of an era will speak no new words. Kurt Vonnegut no longer resides in his fleshly body. A striking aspect of the phenomenon known as the 1960’s was the embracing of Dreams. It was a time of psychedelia, chemically assisted attempts to transcend the bounds of Ordinary Thinking. It was a time of Noble Aspirations. It was a time when Beauty, rather than just Money, was a goal. It was a time when many were struggling to live more dreamful lives.  read more »