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naps

I don't see eye-to-eye with Ben Stein about much of anything, but I agree with him about the power of naps. As he said about naps letting us relax and work out our worries, quoting Shakespeare: "Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care . . ."

March 28, 2011 |

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Terzah

My husband has an edition of The Odyssey in which Homer refers to "the gift of sleep." And my dad refers to lovely 20-minute siestas as "touching the waters of sleep" (I think as opposed to going all the way under). I love naps!

Posted by: Terzah | March 28, 2011 at 03:14 PM

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