The Clarifying

This wintry cold is keeping me hibernating.  We tried to go see Slumdog, but it was sold out so we came home and I returned to my earlier occupation of doing nothing.  I did take a nap so that was my main accomplishment.  I think of a nap this way because In The Open Road, Pico Iyer describes the Dalai Lama's view on sleeping like this:

 

"His energy is discernibly lower as the day nears its end, and the Dalai Lama often talks about sleep as one of the most important activities of the day, even calling on old texts to suggest how sleep can in fact be positively used, as almost anything can, for the clarification of the mind."

I do feel my mind is clearer and I am now ready to watch part 3 of John Adams and have a glass of wine.  Cheers, pals.