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DREAM
By Ameasha Brown
The description I am about to relate to you is neither true nor physical. Though I wish it were! I don't often night dream, but this one night, many years ago, I truly did. I was walking through this very lonely, barren wasteland. The ground was cracked and dry and there was tumble weed laying about, unmoving. There was not so much as a whisper of breeze present. I just stood there gaping. I tried to think of my situation, when panic struck. My legs became weak and I began to tremble. Suddenly I started running, but I didn't know to where, I just ran. All at once darkness fell. The moon was pallid and hardly shone light enough for me to follow. Then what seemed like several minutes, day light returned, and I was very confused and frightened. I stopped running and looked about me so I could get some bearings on my directions. It seemed as if I had ran nowhere. Everything looked exactly the same. I knelt down, and with my head in my hands, I wept. When I raised my head, I saw the shape of the Goddess laying majestically against the sky. As I walked closer, I can't emphasize the feeling of calm and felicity I was feeling. It was as though I had a rendezvous at this place and it had a meaning.
I came upon an old adobe building and with those types of buildings the walls were thick; the interior and exterior plaster surfaces were separated by a good two feet of sun dried bricks of earth and straw. The construction provided such efficient insulation that the building would require no air-conditioning, and only minimal heating in the cold. This I discovered was an old mission. The small room was a rectangular box with rounded corners - except its face. There was green foliage all around, with beautiful flowers growing everywhere. Out of the flowers, I made a small festoon and placed it on my head. This magical place was a sanctuary, and it gave me great peace! The front wall extended above the flat roof, which was made into a parapet. As I stepped onto the balcony, I saw such a breathtaking view. The steps narrowed like a stile and on top of this, a Celtic Cross. From a distance, the cross dominated the building, but as I came closer, eyes shifted to the massive hand - carved double doors held in place by huge wrought iron hinges. I was thinking, such doors where commonplace at the time the mission was built, but today they would cost thousands of dollars - if they could be obtained at all. There was such a serenity all around me and it calmed my very being.
When I woke I could not believe that it was only a dream, it was so vivid. I figured the dream had a meaning and was trying to tell me something. Finally, I grasped what it meant. No matter how low or negative you feel, or how depressed you are, there is always someone or something beautiful and innocent to wake up the hope that was so far buried within your interior, that it will resonate and flow with abundance to your exterior. I had such a tenacious feeling about that place, that I often wish I could dream that dream again.
Born in Hamilton Ontario, Canada, Ameasha has been a practising Pagan Witch from her early teens and through her adult life. The path she follows is Celtic/North American Indian (Cherokee) which is her lineage and she delves deeply into both traditions.
Married for thirty-six years, she and her husband live in the country by the Nith River for over twenty-seven years, where they both raised their three children
Ameasha is an aspiring author and has her works published on the world wide web. She proudly received her Literacy Training Diploma, where she taught the English language for reading and writing. She has always had a passion for writing and telling stories from a very early age. At the present time she has three books in the works, one is a true story, one is a drama/mystery, and the other is a fantasy. She also writes short stories, poetry, and her children's play is a work in progress.
When recently asked, " Where does your inspiration come from - reality or imagination, she replied, " A little of both. I write different genres such as fantasy, where I write from my child within of innocence, make - believe, and magick, drama/mystery for the thrill of fear, the sense of danger, and heroism, and true story for the true emotions, trials and tribulations, and deep from the heart humanity. When I write I wear three faces. I love to paint with words, much like a artist paints with oils."
Her hobbies, when she is not writing are, pagan crafts, gardening, painting, and reading. Her favourite quote is, " The mind is like a parachute, it only works when it's open." - Wilbur Wright.
What she does wish for is world peace, for there to be no world hunger, and religious tolerance.
Amaesha Brown is currently working Australian business Celtic Sorcery Productions to help creat something magical with her incredible writing skills. Check out Celtic Sorcery Productions at http://www.celticsorceryproductions.com
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