dream

I can’t tell if I’m the luckiest person in the world because these are some of the greatest friends I’ve made or if this is a dream — and I’ll wake up to find out this had been too good to be true.

All you see is a deep, deep blue. You close your eyes, but you can’t escape into blackness. All you see is water.

I invite you to unpack with me the mildly disturbing dream I had a couple of nights ago. Buckle up because we’re about to get real close and personal. 

Whether you’re chilling at the beach or sheltering in place, consider picking up one of these pairs of nonfiction books.

For most of us, our musical dreams tend to somehow slip through the cracks, our fingers too thin, too weak or too slippery to catch them. But it’s much easier to make excuses than to start executing plans, and that knowledge, I know, will bug me until I too start chasing my dreams.

Kolby Farmer, a senior at UC Berkeley, disenchanted by the rigors of school and city living, chose his namesake over his college graduation.

On top of the confusion and chaos that come from living through a pandemic, many are also experiencing loss. I personally have lost five friends in the past six months alone.

We know these stories because they are part of us, because they already live in our mind’s eye. Those characters, those creations, are already alive.

For the first time, undocumented students throughout the UC system can receive financial aid, as the university officially announced Thursday an initial $5 million in funding for the California DREAM Loan Program.