ISTANBUL DREAMS
My Birthday gift came almost two months early.
A trip to Istanbul.
To spread the gospel of Universal Design and enhanced wheelchair access to hoteliers and others.
I stayed at a great hotel.
The Hotel Niles is outstanding in every way, except for ADA access.
But it is very quiet there.
It's in a garment district.
So when the sewing machines shut down around 9 p.m., it gets nice and quiet.
The Niles is fairly new, so no sightings of ghosts in the halls.
However, I did have a constant haunting in my dreams.
Not really an ominous haunting.
Kind of a fun, spoken word with clove cigarettes and cheap whiskey session on a cold NE Ohio night type of haunting.
It revolved around naked sirens.
Then weird babies.
Cherubic figures that would ruin any chances of a the kind of dream that should feature a visit by a trio of sirens.
It wasn't till I got home and started editing the 1,000 digital images that I took each day..
...did I find the inspiration for these dreams that started with heavenly fantasies but always ended with the shaming baby dream police putting the kibosh on.
-- ¡UN CHISTE PARA LA GENTE PARA DIA DE LOS MUERTOS!
