Another Late Night

Once again I am awake past midnight and reading online news from around the region and the world. Earthquake in Iran. Mudslides and tornadoes in California. Car crashes and police shootings and suicide/murders in Chicago. Waiting for the morning paper to read the election accounts in the J-S. With so much information to be gathered is it any wonder that our sleep patterns have been interrupted. Perhaps Emerson and his colleagues had it right-go out into the wilderness and observe nature. Learn from it. Live in it and forget your laptop, forget the cell phone, turn off the pager, and take a good book, a camera, and a note pad. Of course, my kids would find me in no time. Oh well, there are always the mental vacations, imagining time in exotic lands, especially someplace warm. Time to wander up to bed and get my usual six hours of sleep in. The rest of the news will have to wait until morning....