I am in a little solarium that is like the front room of my cabin but more open. Same floor, dusty with outdoor dirt. There is a round patio table with a wicker bottom and glass top, and a wicker chair that I am sitting in. Nothing is around the rest of the table, just my chair.  I am scooting the chair around the table playfully, when suddenly I realize I am not making it scoot. It is scooting as if by magic. I pull my feet up and will it to scoot. It goes about a third of the way around the table.  I realize a spirit is making the chair move, and I ask it to whirl me all around the table. It does so, several times, and the feeling is delightful, joyful, playful.

I still have some skepticism, so I ask the spirit for another, unmistakable sign. The chair lifts about a foot up and holds me in the air, then lets me down gently. Then the back of the chair, the wicker, squeezes a hug into my lower back, holds it for a few seconds, and lets go.

I see an old black plastic six-pack, the tiny kind that the seedlings come in from the nursery. It has some little weeds or greens growing up out of it, very scraggly, not much hope. I pick it up. Suddenly the chair and I are outside in the dirt. The weather and scene are more like May, but it is February.

“Are you going to stay with me forever?” I ask the chair/spirit.

The chair shakes from side to side as if shaking its head no.

I was expecting that answer. “Where will you go when you leave?” I ask.

The chair lifts up in the air and then back down as if to say, “Up.”

I decide to dump the seedlings out of the six-pack and into the earth, which is very dark and rich. “Since it’s only February, not much chance of these surviving anyway,” I say to the chair/spirit. I dump them out in my hand first, and the precious white root balls, the size of pinheads, look so sweet. “I will grow many more,” I say, and let them fall to the earth. I sit back in the chair, and the dream fades to waking and early morning. It is February 14, 2019.