Do Not Raise Voice  I awake in my bed before my alarm goes off. I'm in the larger bedroom upstairs at home in Oak Valley. Becky Muldoon, an acquaintance, is chained to the railing on the stairway. The chain is attached to her neck. She does this by choice. She may be sleeping or trying to sleep. I let out a yell, as I sometimes do in the morning to get going. I get out of bed and put my red John Henry underwear, with a crumpled elastic band, on my shelf. I wrap a towel around myself and walk downstairs. The two monks who teach my Buddhism class, Dhar Thack and Jonah Daruwalla, are at the bottom of the stairs with another monk. Dhar says to me, "For example, we do not raise the voice: yell." I realize that I'm disturbing their sleep, and I say, "I'm sorry." My brother Wally walks by.  I'm in a castle where there is a festival occurring with people selling things. I'm near a stand where a man is making and selling black t-shirts with words written on them in a chalk-like substance. He writes "1st Sold" on some of the shirts. My old girlfriend Darla Robertson and several other women walk by. They're all wearing bright orange shorts. Darla asks me if I'm logging again this summer, as a job. I say no.  I'm in a class on Buddhism taught by the two monks. Then a woman is teaching the class in the castle-like setting. A woman next to me asks questions about the lecture material. I tell her it's all in the reading. I know that kids have taken over the castle for 50 years. I'm sitting at a picnic table, which is one of several tables in a group. Something is happening, maybe the class. My dad and Lisa burst through the door. My dad is loud, laughing, and is carrying my friend Reed Maxwell's tent, which he gives to a man thinking he is returning it. My dad is fairly out of control: laughing and talking. He says someone in the room must have the farts. At a table that is turned 90 degrees from the one I was sitting at first, I sit with a group of people and play poker. I have four 7's in my hand. I bet "four-of-a-kind", which is a very strong bet! There are several cards in the middle of the table face up. Of these cards, two or three are 7's. I have two or three 7's in my hand, and the ace of hearts, so I have five 7's in all.