The girls have been asleep for over an hour. Pete is still at work. I'm washing dishes and looking out at the twilight sky, watching a long cloud slowly drift along behind the house across the street. The cloud is a perfect dragon, with smoke coming out of his nose, a spiky back and a curling tail. The last light of the day is a beautiful, pale, electric blue against the dark shape. It is so amazing that I want to wake up the girls to come and see this magical creature as it moves silently past our window. But, I don't, and now it is night and the dragon has become something else.
Today at the Discovery Museum, I made Lucia a Dragon Queen crown. Coincidence? A visitation?
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