In the morning before eating, you’re on the defensive, you manage somehow not to know things you really do know.
[Simone de Beauvoir]

Today, more from Gestures Toward a Theology of Sleep:

7. Why counting sheep? Where did we get that from? I’m not saying it has implicit Christological undertones, but…. doesn’t it? And what do they count in cultures that don’t have sheep?

8. “There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Unknown