what dreams are made of

Last night I had the strangest dream. Many crazy things happened in my dream, but the most significant moment was when I was walking through a kind of market display of stores here in Policka and the Czechs had made new flavors of Dr. Pepper (I’m not intending to make this site only about my obsession with Dr. Pepper, but it’s turning out to be that way). Like we have Cherry Vanilla and Berry in the US, they had made Beer and Wine flavored Dr. Pepper. I was asking the sales clerk if the Dr. Pepper was still nonalcoholic just before I woke up, but before that point this new enigma made me take in my surroundings. I realized that the store offering it was a Burger King and the line of market stands were all chains moved into Policka(the market stands were more like open stores than the small shops we have in real life). I think this comes from my deep dark concern for our downtown, because TESCO came to the outskirts. TESCO is the Walmart of CZ, but a bit trendier like a Target. Maybe this is all I need to say for those of us who grew up in small cities like Ponca, where the wonderful small downtown shops died when the Walmart Superstore came to town. Our TESCO is mainly a supermarket plus, but it has a bakery, a paper section, and a parking lot. If you’ve been to any small European city, maybe you understand about the difficulty in parking downtown, or the importance of the bakery and the paper store. I love my paper store and the many bakeries. I would be sad to see them go. Anna reassures me that they will still be here while I’m living here, but I still see the sadness along with the greatness of the new “advantages” of a greater economy that are coming to even the small cities in this country. Well, I guess I shouldn’t over think this too much, a better variety of possibilities is one of the treasures of a free country as opposed to years in communism with only a few choices in life. Hmm…but I guess the real question in all of this should have been, so would a beer flavored Dr. Pepper really contain alcohol?