The Hebrew month is Kislev, the month of Sleep, the month of Chanuka, the month of dreams. My Chanukiah (Menorah) is already out and ready to go. Last year I made the glorious switch to oil, which is standard among the observant Jews... I highly recommend it, for a more tactile, hands-on Chanuka experience.
In our Torah readings this month, Yaakov sleeps and dreams of the ladder, Lavan dreams, Yosef dreams, Pharaoh dreams. Stuie has not been dreaming too too much, but I have been sleeping a lot, and feeling quite indolent. I would like to blame the winter, but then again, it hasn't been so cold yet, and to assume that the winter makes me indolent would suggest that I have another couple three months of indolence ahead of me.
Then again, I was indolent in the summer, so ya can't really blame the cold.
As far as waking dreams, it's kinda funny (ha?) that a guy who fantasizes about doing everything in the world is so afflicted by (indulgent of) indolence... I'm sort of a young Walter Mitty (check your 6th grade English textbook for sources on that one).
Then again, the fact that I would fear general ignorance as to the identity of Walter Mitty perhaps speaks of the indolence of an entire generation.
Huh. Too much to think about.
Or too much about which to think, really.
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2 comments:
who'd have thought such photos would evoke resulting zany comment exchange!? (joanna)
"The month of Sleep" - now, that's what I've been talkin about for years.
Yer finally speakin' my language.
(decade of sleep, more like, Erik)
Does Sleep dream of being awake?
Do androids dream of electric sleeping bags?
Does Sleep rock in its sleep?
Does sleep sleep of sleep sleep sleep?
Malkovich.
Yawn. Strrrrrretch. Time for bed.
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