Alice's Wish

Alice is collecting some dry twigs. She intends to built a fence around her mushrooms.

Mushrooms, poisonous or not, are one of the snacks taken by reindeer. 

Outside the fence, Alice will keep some Magic Reindeer Food that would make the reindeer so happy so much so they will go away from Alice's mushrooms.

Christmas is near. Alice is collecting as many white "Christmas Mushrooms" as possible. She will decorate them with roses and Christmas lights. 

Such a special day.

Alice is happy, she wishes everyone Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too. 

S on Mushroom

Mushrooms are uncountable, but not this. It is a One.

If we think One is little, we are definitely wrong.

Clark is ordinary,  but not when he has the S on his chest.

It needs no phone booth, this mushroom can fly. Alices can find it in their garden, backyard or jungle. 

It will be back to my neighbourhood when it intends to.

This One is superb, because it has a S too. 

Daydreaming, always

Running is physics. 150km in a month, after all, is still very physical. Excitement is chemistry. It is complicated. 

Pictures of mushrooms taken are physical, enjoyment in Wonderland is chemistry.

Love is simply a fantastic chemical reaction.

I am in love with both at a time. Alice knows this. 

Running with mushrooms in mind is then called daydreaming. 

This is the impact: 42km in 5 hours from recent daydreaming.

Alice's Stories

 

Where is Alice? 

She is actually living somewhere inside my heart that beats in a waveform pattern of her happiness.

When I think I run fast enough to go deep inside my heart, Alice has gone hiding somewhere behide thousands spores of a "glass" mushroom.

I has to fill the glass with wine, this will distract her from leaving again. 

Her stories will then begin. I love these. You have heard many of them.

What a Confusion

These mushrooms would not be invisible if looking at the rate of mushrooming. Being invisible beyond the range of 390 to 700nm, I created confusion.

Mushrooms look so beautiful under current climate. I keep running in my free time, so I still look perfect and fit, and more handsome too, at 57 year old.

I invited Alice to run together, hesitation bears no fruits. But she rather stay in her dreamland, much longer than me. She shrinks and grows herself. She enjoys expecting the unexpected.  

What if I run in her Wonderland, shall I enjoy both running and shrinking and growing at the same time?

What a mess!

Dream world

Is a dream world the real world and physical reality the dream world? That is the question. 

So all the mushrooms look real but they are actually images in my mind theater. So does Alice.

And all of our communications just happen in  a dream world.

It started when I  believed I inhabit my dreams in a lucid state.

A dream world and a day-to-day 3D reality, they are just a hairbreadth apart.

Blues

Keeping one foot in front of the other and we will reach where we intend to. 

Alice is doubtful. Should her thought be running or walking wild in a rabbit hole?

All mushrooms live a slow life. They may not finish those twelve chapters in Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, but they are so bright. They may not run a marathon, yet they are colourful.

Should her thought run wild while walking, walk wild while running, run wild while running, or walk wild while walking? 

This is one of the day after a long holiday. 

I wonder whether this post-vacation blues does happen to Queen of Hearts, Mad Hatter, Caterpillar, White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat etc. 

Happy Year of the Dog

I keep running.  Though worn out and sweat-purged, I love howling my satisfaction to the moon at the end of the run.

So I keep running, and there are always some mushrooms, over some times and some points, put on new and bright clothing, greeting me Happy Chinese New Year.

This is the Year of the Dog.

The tunnel is now through; the rabbit hole over here is connecting the rabbit holes at your ends. Let's come and celebrate together.

White Rabbit. White Mushroom

Continued to run speedily, Alice lost the White Rabbit at one of the corners in Wonderland.

Instead, she saw some white mushrooms. Smiling, Alice looked behind the mushrooms trying to find a trivial tail that would reveal the identity of the rabbit.

She believed a flawless transformation never exists; even night has fallen, when a tunnel connects both ends of Wonderland is successful dug , there is a light and there is the sun.

She had this strong belief, not until she found the White Rabbit ran passed the corner of her eye.

Gloomy Rain

Everyday is a gloomy raining day, and that dyes mushrooms grey. My hairs are white and grey. Is it because I am always soaking wet when running in the rain?

So I told Alice not to get wet in the rain, though that was fun and exciting to compete with every drop of rain to see who were faster.

This crazy competition is one the highlights in Wonderland.

Mushrooms' Escape

But the Resistance has been exposed. 

As the First Order speeds toward the Rebel base, 

the brave heroes mount a desperate escape.

A lost mushroom troop is looking for a passage way, or to be more precise, a hidden rabbit hole, in order to get rid of the army from the First Order.

They know the power of a rabbit hole, the force that can send them to a Wonderland, a temporary Rebel base.

But can they survive before a rabbit hole is found, or my brain turns to jelly for running out of imagination?

In A Full Moon

Luke Skywalker:  What do you see?

Rainfield: A rabbit hole. Life. Mushrooms.
Wolf. An effect. Lunar effect.

Luke Skywalker: And inside you?

Rainfield: The same effect.

Luke Skywalker: And between it all?

Rainfiled: A force. Imbalance. Towards full moon.

A hole always sounds small. A rabbit hole does not.

The lunar effect turns mushrooms into abundance. Rabbit holes grow to the largest to take up this mushrooming. A wolf runs in a bigger wilderness. The echo of howling stays until dawn.

In a full moon.

These are all written down in the new episode of The Wonderland.

Photographs

I love to look at photographs. I enjoy to look at the handsome me, him and her, and of course, my Alice and mushrooms.

A mirror is one of the photographs which I spend time on.

My mind is another form of them. Photographs can be retrieved at ease. I usually create my own stories: Alice always tells how many mushrooms she found in the morning, and how beautiful they are. Sitting side by side, I like to ask her to look into the gills of the mushrooms where she can unlock my years of dreams. A music box plays.

We are in one of the rabbit holes.

An Amazing Alice the Queen

Alice found a mushroom while wandering around like the Queen of this wonderland.

This seems to be true to everyone of us. I came; I saw; I conquered. In dreams.

"Gosh, I should lose my way in this road maze." Alice pondered over the gills of the mushroom.

"Chester Cat, show me where is Charing Cross Road!"

"No, no. Shouldn't a little girl pretend to visit Helene Hanff."

"Take me to Forest of Dean."

"Tokun Hill of Rainfield!"

"Broken Kettle Grasslands!"

What an amazing Alice the Queen.

What an amazing road maze on a mighty mushroom.

Bonkers or Mad

Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are."



"The only difference is that they are either bonkers or mad."

"So don't pretend the other way round by straightening your body." Alice said in Alice's way.

"Inside rabbit holes, bonkers has nothing to do with the shape of you."

Marathon in a Rabbit Hole

How fun it is to run a full marathon! Yes, in a Rabbit hole.

The Queen told Alice to run at least twice as fast in order not to keep in the same place after all the running. 

So I could feel the mental exertion of a group of young mushrooms this morning.

I told them I took up the marathon challenge at 54. I can feel my vast energy because I am now growing backwards.

This can only happen in a rabbit hole.

It must be fun if Alice is able to run together in this third year.

I am counting down.

Composition of Rainfield

"Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court." The king read out from his book.

So all the mushrooms stayed.

"How high is a mile?" Alice was so easily confused again.

"I am not taller than  these mushrooms. I must be less than a mile high!" Alice then made up her mind. "Being tiny is advantageous."

Alice seemed to know many little things.

These many little things formed an inquisitive Alice. 

Rainfield is composed of many little Alices.

Outside Wonderland

So a mushroom popped down a large and straight rabbit hole.

It found itself being pulled down immediately by an extremely strong force of gravity.

(Don't mention this gravitational force to Alice, she even confused by the calculation of volume; but somehow she vaguely remembered something called pi. Or is it pie?)

No time for jokes between head and feet. And before I can finish typing, all in a sudden, thump!

A big bang on the hard floor!

We thus have very flattened mushrooms outside Wonderland.

Long Mushrooms in Rabbit Hole

So it started to pop down a narrow and uneven rabbit hole.

And down it went, which seemed to be a very long way, a mushroom found itself being stretched by the slow moving time.

Its head could hardly see its feet. This stretching happened without the biting of any mushroom. How can a mushroom ate another mushroom?

The mushroom began to talk when time was ample, just like Alice did in the rabbit hole. 

No! It shouted. This always ended up in argument. What the head saw was not what had been told by the feet. Things changed, indeed, very fast.

Down, down, down. When there came a sudden stop, thump!

We thus have this length of long mushrooms outside the Wonderland.