I had the coolest dream about Jill and Joe Biden last night! I’m still smiling about it!

 

I was at some type of political function but it was a celebratory event, not a political campaign or rally. It was indoors, with tables and booths. (Imagine a kind of pure, Kennedy Center-type function where Profiles in Courage distinctions are bestowed and honored. The place looked like that, more or less.)

 

I was wandering along, checking out the participants behind the tables and in the booths when I spotted Dr. Jill and former POTUS Joe Biden at one of the tables.  I was utterly delighted to see them, as it would give me an opportunity to thank them for all they have done for the U.S., the world, and for the students in Dr. Biden’s classrooms.

 

I was super glad to see Joe again (whom I actually met and shared the briefest of conversations with in real life in about 2014 when he was VP and visiting Tacoma), and I had written to (but never met) Dr. Biden at least twice (in real life. not just in this dream).

 

But what FLOORED me in this dream was that when Dr. Jill spotted me, her face lit up and she stood, waved to me, beckoned me over and tapped Joe so he’d look my way and see me, too!

 

I was so astonished by her reaction that my mouth flew open!

 

I couldn’t believe it!  ME???!!!

 

I looked around to see if she was actually looking at someone else nearby, but then she said, “KRIS!  COME HERE!”  with a big grin and open arms!

 

Again, in real life I have never met or even been in the presence of Jill Biden, and surely Joe wouldn’t remember a brief handshake and conversation which happened across a security rope in a crowd of Secret Service members and Senator Patty Murray (photo below), so I didn’t know why she was reacting this way/what she had heard, seen or read about me that would elicit her reaction.

 

But OF COURSE I obeyed, stepped over to her and embraced her!  (NO BRAINER!!!  HEAVEN ON EARTH!))

 

She then said, “Of all the people I’ve wanted to get back to, you’re at the top of the list!”

 

I wondered (to myself,  not to her), “WHY??? Which of my books, IMs, blog posts, contribution comments, whatever had intrigued or impressed  you so?”

 

She turned to Joe then — who didn’t seem to be 100% up to par (a far cry from the robust interactor I met on 2014) — and said to him, “Joe, this is Kris Smith!”

 

(Eegods! She knows my entire name, I thought!)

 

Joe looked at me and smiled. Clearly, my name didn’t ring a bell with, him but I hadn’t given my name the day we met all those years ago for maybe 30 seconds, so I didn’t expect him to know me.  (Heck, I didn’t expect Dr. Jill to know me!)

 

But somehow SHE knew (something positive or noteworthy) about me and I was over the moon!

 

I stayed with them for the rest of the dream, just basking in her essence and recognition.

 

It was wonderful.  We didn’t even need to speak after that; we were connecting by OSMOSIS, it seemed!

 

Jill and I were both solicitous of Joe, who was in failing health (his cancer prognosis is weighing heavily on my mind in real life) but he was still capable of telegraphing his lovely human soul. I held his hand, off and on, just staying in touch, ya know, like I used to with DeForest Kelley when he was sick…

 

My dreams about Joe Biden

 

 

… (I have had three or four of them over the years) have always been fatherly and wonderful. I truly admire, respect, and love him (and Dr. Jill!) as much as I admired, respected, and loved DeForest Kelley (whom I actually knew and was friends with in real life, and who launched my writing career when I was just seventeen years old).

 

I can tell “good people” (intuitively) when I see them.  Jill and Joe Biden are good people. salt of the earth types.

 

And yes, of course I have ordered her latest book! (View from the East Wing: A Memoir) I know it has to be a good one because SHE is!

 

I’m sooo happy I got to meet her in a dream!  Living in Costa Rica now (partly to escape T-Wrecks’ policies re transgender people like myself), I don’t ever expect to meet her in real life. But if I did, I would thank her and Joe for the examples they have set as role models and for the many sacrifices they have made to serve the US and the world for decades and decades.

 

I’d thank Jill for being a teacher, too.

 

 

(Great teachers are my heroes!)  ESPECIALLY since I have recently learned that she’s an introvert, as so many great teachers and others are. She had to set aside her own druthers to show up for others.  That’s HUGE!  Being gregarious appears natural to Joe,  although since he started life as a stutterer, perhaps becoming gregarious was an adaptation for him, too!

 

Anyway, I am a happy camper today because I spent quality time with Jill and Joe Biden in my dreams!