Health & Fitness
Vision of the Possible: Notes from an Insomniac
Area resident Judy Shepps Battle shares her vision of the Possible born on an insomniac November night in Central New Jersey
It's 3:22 AM on a crisp-cold 33-degree star-filled night as I sit holding a cup of coffee with a dollop of whip cream trying to relax into the purpose that stirred an insistent need to abandon a warm snuggly bed for an chilly journey into the unknown.
Both hands rest lightly on an aging wired keyboard as I delight in my free-flowing in-breath as it tickles and coats awareness before gracefully exiting into the ether.
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Inner peace amplifies and echoes in this quiet space shared by fellow occupants of our planet. In the gentle grace of inter-being, all are one.
For this nanosecond all identifiers that separate us are irrelevant. Our planet -- as it can and should be -- softly exists.
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It's so simple. It's so simple. Make it so.
My whispered prayer rises slowly to the heavens as involuntary tears form a widening puddle at my feet.
At least this is how it feels here in my piece of Central New Jersey, USA on a newly born Sunday on the 25th of November.
Just sign me Insomniac-with-a-Purpose.
Judy Shepps Battle is a New Jersey resident, addictions specialist, consultant and freelance writer. Her weekly column "It Takes a Village" appeared in the South Brunswick Patch for a year. She can be reached by e-mail at writeaction@aol.com. Additional information on this and other topics can be found at her website at http://www.writeaction.com/.
Copyright 2012 Judy Shepps Battle
