Wednesday, July 9, 2008

celestial seasonings - 'on napping'

granted, it's not all that late for some of you night owls... but for me it is past bedtime and i am wide awake. so i have brewed a cup of celestial seasoning's 'sleepytime extra' to hopefully send me on my way to dreaming. it has valerian in it, so it's a little 'extra' helpful.
on the side of the box it has a quote from david jacoby. i like it:
"when we were young, the 'tall' ones told us when to slow down. when the demands of the world became too great, their powers of reasoning proved maddeningly accurate. 'i think someone's tired,' they observed. and off for a nap we went. ten minutes later, our dreaming faces had put us back in good favor with our exasperated parents. when we woke, the world somehow made sense again. what kind of truth might a napping child impart to us? now we are the tall ones, living in a complicated world with no one to tell us when to slow down. the slumbering little one knows the value of not having the last word, of accepting a minor defeat. it's so simple. miss out on something. put yourself back in your own good humor. the world will wait."
good night!

1 comment:

Milla said...

I love that quote! How wonderful! (and so true...)