"The Race that Knows Joseph"

The Guild, Charlottetown, venue of Tuesday night's wonderful performance, "Nine Lives of LM Montgomery" 

"Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph". Exodus 1

Until last Tuesday night when I attended the musical Nine Lives of LM Montgomery, I had never made the connection between "The Race that Knows Joseph" and dream interpretation.  This became evident in the wonderful song of the same name (The Race that Knows Joseph.).  Ah, yes, I said to myself!  Joseph was an interpreter of dreams.  This adds even more layers to my understanding of the whole identity of Maud's coining of the name.

Well, this morning, in my first waking moments as often happens to me,  I had a dream, or rather a sort of vision, like a movie short.  It went like this:

Maud was standing with her back against the side of a brick building which was several stories high.  I think the building may have been a hotel and there was a sidewalk surrounding the building, and an expanse of green lawn that also surrounded the perimeter of the building.  Suddenly, an ebullient little boy, Chester--well scrubbed and dressed in short pants--bounds happily around the corner from the other side. Maud stands dour faced with her back straight against the building and does not deign herself to peer around the corner to see where Chester has been or what he has been doing.  Perhaps she does not identify with the child, or perhaps she doesn't see her responsibility in monitoring what happens in the live's of little children. 

It could be either, or none of the above. Whatever her reasons were, it is very obvious from the dream that her back was against the wall (though she had options that she wasn't taking) and that she wasn't looking!

That's it!  Not much, but there it is.