dream: working and changing houses

dreamed on may 22.

i'm at someone's house visiting and have brought work with me. the house is brightly lit, cluttered, and active with life happening. i'm working in an office, working on a project, researching, writing, pulling material together, moving around, doing some computer work, talking to people. i'm really enjoying this work. it seems to be flowing smoothly, and i'm getting a lot accomplished.

the doorbell rings, and i answer. an unknown man is standing there. i realize that it's midnight, and i've been caught up in this project later than i had intended. i let the man in and begin gathering my stuff to leave.

i go to my ex-mother-in-law's house in cordell, oklahoma. it's day time. workmen are there to do some remodeling, but she isn't there. my daughter and a couple of others are there. i feel at home and comfortable in this house, even though her son and i have been divorced for years.

a workman asks me what she wants done to the house. i don't know. i start showing him what remodeling she'd already had done--changed the entry way, converted a large bedroom and bathroom to a huge living room, enclosed a porch, and so on.

he and i begin speculating on what she wants changed. i start counting how many grandchildren and great-grandchildren she has since she last remodeled and speculate that she might want one large back bedroom divided into two rooms, but i tell him he'll have to hear it from her. end of dream.

message: two houses, neither mine, working happily, a remodeling project. a mysterious midnight visitor. this could be about healing the past.