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If you want to sleep, sleep. Simple as that.

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I was listening to some short stories on my Ipod yesterday evening, a collection of horror stories, supposedly although they weren't very horrific or frightening to me, and one by Peter Straub has struck me. It's called "Little Red's Tango". I'm not finished with it but one chapter was called THE BEATITUDES OF LITTLE RED and it moved me. So here they are: Whatsoever can be repaid, should be repaid with kindness. Whatsoever can be borrowed, should be borrowed modestly. Tip extravagantly, for they need the money more than you do. You can never go wrong by thinking of God as Louis Armstrong. Those who swing, should swing some more. Something always comes along. It really does. Cleanliness is fine, as far as it goes. Remember--even when you are alone, you're in the middle of a party. The blues ain't nothin' but a feeling, but what a feeling. What goes up sometimes just keeps right on going. Try to eat solid food at least once a day. There is absolut...

Refresh your Soul

My friend Michael Zwack, who is a transcendent artist of spirit in his own right, sent me a youtube link with images by a photographer named Hans Sylvester of what I will loosely call the Omo people of Ethiopia, as there are apparently many different tribes living along the Omo River there. If you do anything for yourself today, watch this: It will refresh your soul.