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Insomnia

Such a gift!
The opportunity to observe the Universe in the dark, quiet pre-dawn hours.
Why does it have such a bad name?
— 
Insomnia—“Not-sleepingness”—as if inadherence to a
conventional sleep pattern were somehow an infraction on Life.
Mid-nocturnal wakefulness is only a disease if you call it one.
I’ve done some of my best work in the middle of the night, and
my best sleep in the middle of the afternoon.
I have been blessed to have the freedom to do so.
It may come down to a standoff between my institutional
irreverence and the establishments—legal, medical, educational, corporate.
They have tried to define me for sixty years.
I have danced with all of them
and
as I sit hearing the clocks and my heart tick, I ultimately listen to my own voice.
“Insomnia” as a term comes from a scarcity mentality.
“Dear me, I haven’t enough”—in this case—“sleep.”
That may ring true in an alarm clock world, but that’s only one world out of many.

I like sleep.
I have nothing against sleeping through the night, overrated as it may be.
I won’t go as far as to give it a Latin name that means “not connected to one’s dreams.”


  • May you sleep well, and live a life filled with colorful, abundant dreams.
  • May your dreams be fulfilled.
  • May you rise each day with awe, with gratitude for God’s restoring your soul, with a deep connection to your truth and to your internal time piece that measures your days, years, and life according to your unique rhythm.​
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    • Yesh's Story
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    • A Precious Heritage
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    • The Blog
    • ETHICAL WILLS >
      • ETHICAL WILL Revisited
      • BLESSINGS >
        • Dedication
        • Prologue
        • Introduction
        • Journals
        • Insomnia
        • Nature
        • Pelicans
        • Subways
        • Connection
        • Revelation
        • Yeshaya
        • Points of View
        • Na'aseh V'nishma
        • Path
        • Disturbance
        • Cycles
        • Elul
        • Shofar
        • Forgiveness
        • Study
        • Legacy
        • My Dad
        • Benediction
      • References
    • Salt & Pepper >
      • Preface to S&P
      • Salt & Pepper
      • You've Gone
      • Brothers
      • A Friend Like Jim
      • Fathers Day
      • Password: shalom
      • Tekiah Gadolah
      • Following One's Dream
  • Art
    • ELROD SNIDLEY
  • Challah, etc.
    • Recipe
    • References
    • "CHALLETTE"
    • Babka!
    • Bagels
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