The Water

I dreamed a clt offered to show a manuscript of my novel to a friend of hers who's in the publishing business once I was finished. I wondered why she wanted to do this generous thing, as well as whether it was a good idea, in terms of professionalism to take her up on it. Then I was reading a book to my family and C, and I was really stumbling over the words cuz I'm not good at reading out loud. I was about to play a song on my guitar and sing it, even though the bass line was the most important instrument part. It was either gonna be College Town or Broken Compact Disk. But, first I had to read this book, and I'm not sure if I had to read the entire book or not, but it was lengthy, whatever it was. I ended up reading more smoothly and fluidly than previously cuz I got less self-conscious. Then there was a part of the book that was about something like a Buddhist Monastary, or something holy and sacred like that, in an Eastern sorta way. At that place, there was running water, like a stream or something, and it ran over Diet Coke and Diet 7-Up fridge packs. In the book it said that at some point or points, everybody becomes that water. I wondered why they said it was from time to time, rather than all the time, cuz in Buddhism, you'd think they'd say that you're the water all the time.