jokes and dreams

1. A man in the elevator gleefully reveals that he used to be a lounge singer. He tells a few jokes. The others stare and respond in awkward English. I feel a bit better about doing the same for jokes in Spanish.

2. I pass a man on the street talking into his cell phone. "I won't keep you any longer, I've already probably exceeded regulations," he says. "But you know me - I'm a rulebreaker."

3. Among the things I'm supposed to dream about is sitting in a rocking chair next to him seventy years after we get our first house. I don't dream about it that night, but it has made me grin for the entirety of the following day.