Tuesday, July 3, 2007

DREAMS

I really don't know what is prompting all these wild dreams, the only thing i can think of is they are coming because of the time I've spent at the (LHD-in wimmin-only-space). A long time ago when we first started on the path to vegetarianism my honie and i decided to get some chickens, first because i loved eggs and was getting sick every time i would eat eggs purchased from the supermarket, at that time the best eggs to get where from others who had chickens,but in the city where we lived having chickens in your yard had been forbidden by the people who had more interest in supermarkets and finding someone who had chickens had almost become extinct. We moved to another part of the city that was not bound by chicken laws so we made contact with a womon who we knew who was a driver for a company that shipped chickens to South America,we convinced her to bring us some chicks,she knew enough about chickens to be able to sex them and gave us six beauti-filled chicks,and we got one beauti-fill adult chicken from one of our new neighbors who had chickens. We learned a lot about chickens that year,we learned that there were all kinds of chickens,some named after where they lived like Rhode Island Reds and Plymouth's Rocks and so forth. We had one chicken a gorgeous black with white tips on the end of her feathers we call babalou, she laid blue eggs. And so we started eating eggs from the chickens in our yard and i found i did not get sick anymore, as time went on and the supermarket started selling eggs gotten from range free chickens or organically grown i stopped getting sick. The chickens we got to love very much and they were with us until the hurricane Andrew blew in their cages and they were killed by some animals who got loose from the zoo. Now this was a long time ago and i still have dreams about them,they had no longer become objects for food cause we had fallen in love with them, watch them turn the gardens, watch them argue with the cats, watch them argue with us . Do you know that a lotta wimmin did not know that a chicken can have an egg without a rooster? Many wimmin at that time asked how are you going to have eggs if you don't have a rooster? And our response would be the same way a womon bleeds monthly without a man. That brings me to this i have a sister who will eat chicken but will not eat an egg, she says eating an egg to her is the same as eating monthly bloods,well she has a point a chicken's egg is her monthly. Kicking the egg habit has been a constant journey. I dreamed last night that all the chickens we once had were back with us and they were laying eggs in great abundance, and i got very upset because i had not feed them or given them water in a bit but they kept laying eggs, wow now whats that about?