Sleep is one of the most important predictors of how long you will live — as important as whether you smoke, exercise, or have high blood pressure or cholesterol. . . Unhealthy sleep remains American’s [sic] largest, deadliest, most costly, and least studied health problem.
– Sleep scientist William Dement in Secret Life of Sleep by Kat Duff
It’s possible to plug my ears and soldier on, but who’s the hero of that story? Push too hard for too long and you end up with blistered hands and a dead battery.
The weary frame begs for rest.
This family, this work, this creature living out her days in this one-and-only body has to release her stranglehold on momentum. It turns out that the slick promise of Forward Harder Better More actually pays out in stumbling weakening poisoning collapse.
What we knew once we can know again:
Sweet dreams invite sweeter days.
I return to chapter one to learn this lesson all over again.
Last night, I clocked eight hours. Tonight I will do the same.
Shannon E. Williams 
oh well haven’t gotten a good night’s sleep in years (buggy neurology) but glad you are taking care.
for the boy: