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The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
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Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
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Thursday, January 22, 2004
Anonymous Strikes Again!
I haven't been sleeping well lately until it's time to get up, of course, so I decided to post quotations about sleep. Why not? As with many other activities, if I can't do it, I might as well read about it. Last night I was so sleepy and decided to go on to bed around 6:15. (West Wing was a rerun) I eventually went on to sleep and only got one phone call. It was around 7:30 or so, I think, and I remember quite a bit of it. Not sure how much sense I made on my end and am sure I was uncharacteristically cryptic. I went back to sleep and slept soundly (for me) until around 2:30 this morning. This won't become a habit since those are not the hours I choose to be asleep early on, but it worked out for me last night. Generally this time of day comes once for me unless I've stayed up for it.
Have a quote:
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
~William Shakespeare, Macbeth
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things. ~Dorothy Parker
I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake. ~Author Unknown
Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds. ~JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002
There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. ~Author Unknown
Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. ~Author Unknown
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. ~Author Unknown
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. ~Author Unknown
4:05:00 AM
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