Do You Ever Dream of Candy Coated Raindrops?
Soul for Real
“My love, do you ever dream of
Candy coated raindrops?
You’re the same, my candy rain”
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.freshmancomp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/soul4realtweet-1.png?resize=270%2C234)
Do you ever dream of candy coated raindrops? No? Well, me neither. However, when I think of dreams it always reminds me of that Soul for Real song from the
So I wrote all of that because for some strange reason I can’t think of anything I dream of. I’m sure that has everything to do with me being on sabbatical. Maybe I should dream of having another sabbatical, but I’d have to wait 7 years for that and I hope to be retired by then. And when I return in the fall, I’ll already be going through a bit of a job change, transitioning back to teaching composition full time. It’s been four years, so I don’t have the barely hidden disdain for grading hundreds of essays every 3 weeks in me. I’m actually looking forward to it.
In the