beautiful fish

When I woke up today, I started talking about how I had an awesome dream about awesome fish. I was in some world where fish played a large role--well, in fact, I think they sort of looked over everything. I was in this dim, beautiful, candle-lit room and somebody was telling me how the fish were everything--and there was this big mother fish who was colored deep dreamy blues and purples and who seemed like she was all-seeing and maybe something like the Spirit of the Forest from Princess Mononoke. Hah. Anyway, we must have been in a building under the ocean, because the person who was telling me all this let me look out of a window to see into the area of the ocean where this mother fish lived. And she was really beautiful and she swam over and looked at us. And then I noticed a lot of other fish, and they were all really pretty. Their colors reminded me of those children's books some of us used to read. Remember?


Well they were kinda like this. But much more real. And I was told that every year, when allllll of the new fish were born, the "smartest" one--or whichever one was gifted for some special reason--was chosen to be the mother for next year. I got to see hundreds of eggs suspended in the water, and what looked like little faeries came out of each one. Apparently the reason I was being told all this was because the fish for that year was being chosen now--I was watching it happen--and it was my job to work with this one special fish and teach it how to be a part of the world while all the others went on to live their lives. I had to prepare this one for its year and whatever role it had; and then the following year, it would lay hundreds of eggs itself, and one of them would be the new special one for that year. The one for this year, which I was supposed to meet, was named Penny.

Well I really liked this dream. What's really funny is that when I got up, I went on facebook and noticed that a friend of mine had posted an article he found to be interesting. The article was entitled "Hundreds of fish fall out of the sky over remote Australian town of Lajamanju." So... wow. Coincidence I guess? One woman was finding them and putting them back in water, because it turns out they were totally alive. Here's what some of them looked like.

Check out the article here. Apparently sometimes there are tornadoes in the ocean that pick up water and fish and drop them hundreds of miles away. That's so fucking crazy!

So fish are totally on my mind today--beautiful fish.