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Sunday, November 8, 2009
Night and Her Daughter Sleep
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Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.
~ Heraclitus (translated by Brooks Haxton)"
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Noble and Good....
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"How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day."
— Anne Frank
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Falling Asleep
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"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Starship Troopers)
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Sleepy Head
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"Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye
"
— John Lennon, Paul McCartney
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Zoning at the office
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The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.
~Wilson Mizener
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Unmade Bed
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"No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is a wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick."
— Erma Bombeck
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Dreams Are Forever
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"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."
— Walt Disney
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Take a nap in a fireplace...
"Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log."
— Ellen DeGeneres
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I obviously have nothing better to do with my time.
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With finals over, I have had absolutely no homework. I don't even have anything to procrastinate, now that I've already taken my 52 Weeks picture. It's like I'm just existing. My purpose in life is school (as silly at that may sound) and this transition between semesters feel like such a standstill in time. I've been on Flickr and playing Spore for 48 hours. Who knew I couldn't wait for a weekend to be over?
Photo by Ana Santos
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Night with vintage bear
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Just trying to express myself, my feelings, my moods, my loves and friendships, through photography.
photo by juliette
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While I nodded, nearly napping...
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door —
Only this, and nothing more."
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Friday, November 6, 2009
I may have made a difference in someone’s life
“I go to sleep peacefully at night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone’s life.”
~ Sergeant Kimberly Munley (from her Twitter bio)
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Sleepy Baby
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
~Victor Hugo
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Sleeping with your Dog
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Now I lay me down to sleep,
The king-size bed is soft and deep.
I sleep right in the center groove
My human being can hardly move!
I've trapped her legs, she's tucked in tight
And here is where I pass the night
No one disturbs me or dares intrude
Till morning comes and "I want food!"
I sneak up slowly to begin
my nibbles on my human's chin.
She wakes up quickly,
I have sharp teeth-
I'm a puppy, don't you see?
For the morning's here
and it's time to play
I always seem to get my way.
So thank you Lord for giving me
This human person that I see.
The one who hugs and holds me tight
And shares her bed with me at night!
~Unknown
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book is a 1962 children's book by Dr. Seuss.
This book begins with a small bug yawning. This yawn spreads (as yawns are terribly contagious) and then the book follows various creatures, including the Foona Lagoona Baboona, the Collaspable Frink, the Chippendale Mupp, The Oft, and the Krandles, throughout the lands who are sleeping, or preparing to sleep. Towards the end of the book the sleepers in the world are recorded by a special machine ("The Audio Telly O-Tally O-Count"). A Warning is printed on the inside cover of the book that "this book is to be read in bed" as it is intended to put children to sleep. The final line of the book is a simple, unmetered "Good night".
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"Never go to bed mad..."
"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
— Phyllis Diller
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Goodreads | In the Bed of a Duke
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Begins in London 1807, continues to Scotland. A woman convinces her younger sister to jilt the duke and then finds herself caught up and falling in love with this "enemy".
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kids bunk bed and reading area
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There are so many surfaces to hang out in this room. I had multiple beds, too, and loved it.
(via desire to inspire)
image courtesy of ooh_food / Maggie
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Alphabet of Bed A - Z part I
There are so many things one can do in bed... let this illustrated A to Z show you some ideas.
I had the idea for this peculiar A-Z in bed (where else?) first thing in the morning, in this magical moment when you've left sleep behind yet you're not totally awake.
Obviously, there are so many things you can do in bed... I admit I had some other options in some of the letters, but I restrained myself :-) ...
See it also on my blog http://aquarel.blogspot.com
Illustration by Joan M. Mas
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Ligne Roset Maly Bed
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The Maly bed from Ligne Roset ($5,000) is probably the most elegant contemporary-style bed you'll find (nevermind the fact that it costs more than your first car). The low-sitting bed has an aluminum base, movable back cushions (no headboard), two pivoting tables, and is available in natural, dark brown or ebony oak finish.
Image courtesy Warren Noronha
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...they do make me sleepy
"I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy."
— Frank Zappa
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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
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Mattress Stuffed with Straw
"Then they, too, lay down on mattresses stuffed with straw, hearing the music of the flies to buzz them to sleep, holding each other's hands as they dozed, thinking of the miracles by which love works its will in the world."
— Orson Scott Card (Enchantment)
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Bed-In
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A Lego recreation of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 "Bed-In" in Amsterdam. Try as I might, I couldn't find the name of the photographer who took the original photograph. There were many photographers present during the week long bed-in, including Roy Kerwood, Elmar Welge, Nico Koster, Cor Jaring, Gerry Deiter, Ivor Sharp and Bob Gruen. It may have been one of them, it may not have been. If anyone knows, add a comment please :-)
Creation and photo by Mike Stimpson
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100: I Need More Sleep
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As for this picture (which has not be stretched or warped), well, it's a bit grotesque if you ask me. It's true, I do need more sleep, but look at me... I'm hideous! I tried to come up with something super special for my 100th, but the cats were not big on cooperating the other night, so I did a little fisheye distortion (my first big lens purchase! everyone thought I was crazy for spending that much on a fisheye) combined with my new present, the SB-600 external flash (and my PS Lomo plugin). I think it came out pretty fun... but I really can't look at it for too long. Gross.
photo by josh hunter
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Good Night and Thank You
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When I was young and stupid I turned my entire ceiling in my room to a huge gargantuan painting. In the rare occasions when I get back to sleep in that old room of mine, I try not to look above. It's so exhausting, I swear to God! I surely did a lot of stupid things when I was young, but this just beats them all.
Of all the things depicted, I think I still like this face though...
painting by artwerk by alphadesigner
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
What are your favorite bedtime stories?
Do you have favorites your read to your kids? Favs that were read to you?
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"I would rather be..."
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
— Jack London
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A sleepy conscience
"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain
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Alice was beginning to get tired
Alice was beginning to get tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?'
So she was considering, in her mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!" (when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed natural); but, when the Rabbit took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a rabbit-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never considering how in the world she was to get out again.
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Woman throws away million-dollar mattress - Times Online
An Israeli woman who bought her elderly mother a new mattress threw out the old one unaware that it had $1 million hidden inside it.
Israeli newspapers reported today that the woman was left scrabbling through landfill sites in an, as yet, fruitless search for the mattress which contained her mother's life savings.
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High Schools Starting Later to Help Sleepy Teens : NPR
Most high schools begin their day around 7:30 a.m., which leaves many teenagers nodding off in the morning. In fact, at least 20 percent of high school students fall asleep in class on a typical day. The problem: Teenagers need a lot of sleep — about nine hours each night, experts say. And most of them aren't getting enough.
To help sleepy teens, some school districts have tried delaying the opening of the high school day. Educational researcher Kyla Wahlstrom, from the University of Minnesota, has been following districts that changed their start times, tracking the effect on schools and students. The Minneapolis school district, for example, changed its start time from 7:20 to 8:40 a.m., giving its 12,000 high schoolers an extra hour and twenty minutes each morning. Wahlstrom says the students have benefited from the change.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
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