PostingDreamcatcher

K's favourite toy is a cunningly designed dreamcatcher purchased at Edinburgh's Floatarium. This is no ordinary dreamcatcher. For a start, there are no feathers or natural artefacts to help filter good and bad dreams. Instead, brightly coloured glass beads and baubles do the job.

In a genius move of New Age marketing this particular dreamcatcher also pays homage to another object beloved of hippies the world over and incorporates chimes. As the finishing touch, a sequinned red heart dangles from the whole. It's tawdry but I LOVE it.

Often in the mornings I lift K up in my arms to inspect it. Her face lights up. She reaches out a hand gently to stroke the heart, as one might a precious object. Gently she boffs at the chimes, marvelling at the sounds. She never gets annoyed or bored with it, as she does with other toys, most of which she throws away without any pretence of social nicety.

Not so the dreamcatcher.

Posted 19 March 2007 22:36

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