This dream is still fresh in my memory, so I need to do a short recap.

I met up with lots of my friends from New Orleans & Brooklyn at this party on my elementary school's playground. There were picnic tables filled with BBQ & watermelon. Kids were playing on jungle gyms with balloons attached to their wrists. Everyone was standing there when it started raining. Kids jumping in the grass turned it into mud, and a parade started coming down Jones Creek Road. Marching bands and baton twirlers and people throwing treats, the whole nine. Then, one of the floats stopped, and out came Johnny Cash. He was singing "I Still Miss Someone", got off the float and came and laid in the mud with all the kids and I ran over and laid with them. He was smiling and we were all covered in mud. He kept singing.

When I started to walk home, I was completely overtaken by giddyness & dirt caked up to my neck. Then I saw his van. No one was in it, so I climbed in and fell asleep on the back bench. He & his new girlfriend came out to the van and woke me up. When I saw his face, there was a look of anger for about three seconds until I rubbed my eyes and said, "What?" Then he smiled. He looked at his girlfriend, and she left us to talk. He climbed in the van and asked why I'd come. I told him I was too tired to walk anymore. He said he'd drive me wherever I needed to go. He asked about the mud but didn't seem to care that it was all over his seat. While he was driving, I sat in the passenger seat and told him about everything that had just happened, the balloons, the friends from everywhere, the kids jumping, and Johnny Cash. He just glanced over every now & again with a smile to let me know he was listening.

He stopped the van and told me to get out. I thought he was going to leave me on this bridge. It was a bridge over the creek where my mother would take my sister & I when we kids. He parked the van, got out, and grabbed my hand. "Don't think." We jumped off the bridge and into the creek, not knowing if we'd come back up for air. When our heads popped up, we looked at each other confused and he pulled me in and hugged me. He said he was sorry to scare me. I hugged him back and we floated.