by Michelle Tocher | May 5, 2023
The other night, I had an astonishing dream of a sweet young woman who was a ewe. She had horns and blond, tightly curled hair. She wore a white shift, and she was seven or eight months pregnant. She had stepped out of a story that we had heard told by a king. I...
by Michelle Tocher | Jun 4, 2020
On the first day of the first year of the new decade, I had a dream. I am walking through the grass in a garden. I look down and see a tiny feminine figure curled up in the midst of the green shoots. She has a blond bob with bangs and she’s a little bit plump. I think...
by Michelle Tocher | Feb 5, 2020
You dreamt of failing in a finishing school. You were never going to succeed at becoming a Lady. You submitted yourself to endless lessons in etiquette. You allowed every natural instinct to be critiqued, and eventually all the humiliations and tiny tortures silenced...
by Michelle Tocher | May 16, 2018
I dreamed that I had been asked to come and speak at a school. As I was waiting to go inside, I watched a group of 12-year-old boys and girls playing in the schoolyard. And I thought, There is not one of you that I could not love. Then I found myself addressing a...
by Michelle Tocher | Apr 6, 2018
This audio blog is based on a dream that I had some years ago. It has to do with a ‘canoe lesson’ and the difficulty that an exquisitely advanced teacher had when he took me on as a student. It has prompted many insights over the years, but recently...
