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Recently, I have thought about the night Dylan graduated from high school. I just keep remembering finding him on the field after ceremony, and walking right up to him to give him a big hug. I didn’t want to let him go in that moment, because I knew that things would be different. I didn’t feel ready, but I realized that he had become a man when I noticed how much taller was than I. Perhaps, these thoughts have resulted in this dream I had last night:<\/p>\n

Dylan had short hair. It might have had some gel in it, but not much. I would say he was about seven. He was standing in front of a folding table that had an old man sitting on the other side. There were a few papers scattered on the table. Dylan looked like he was wearing a school uniform, but this did not seem to be school related. <\/p>\n

With a little encouragement, Dylan walked up to the table and very quietly asked the old man a question. Something about the old man and his words caused Dylan to repeat the question so the old man could hear him, instead of turning to Donna and I who were standing off to the side. The old man’s response was lighthearted and seemed to indicate that whatever Dylan had asked would not be a problem.<\/p>\n

All of a sudden, I was in the empty garage of the townhouse we used to own. There might have been a few people around the perimeter of the garage, but Dylan and I were in the middle. When I saw him, I walked up to him and hugged him tight while crying uncontrollably. I said to him, “It has been so long since I have seen you when you were so small.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This morning, when I walked up to the tree in Heritage park, my eyes filled with tears as this dream from last night came back to me. <\/p>\n

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Recently, I have thought about the night Dylan graduated from high school. I just keep remembering finding him on the field after ceremony, and walking right up to him to give him a big hug. I didn’t want to let him go in that moment, because I knew that things would be different. I didn’t … Continue reading Thoughts and Dreams<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}