the combination drive and hike wiped us out
we planned to get up before dawn
for Yosemite
i popped some tylenol at 3am
told you not to stress
let’s sleep in
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Tag Archives: sleep
less than likely
we watch the kids play pinball at the city arcade
selecting broad beans for our coronation
quiche. the lands we lived on
shaped us. it had nothing to do with sex
get the mind out of the gutter
ball. the clothes cling to our body
and the line in the garden
closing the book over the mark
we go to sleep
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per.suas.ive
when
her lips parted to speak
radio waves flooded the room and
soaked the floral kitchen
wallpapers
the brief winter daylight
lengthened several hours around
her persuasion
we all fell asleep
effortlessly
#katyamills
my subconscious
the things that keep me up at night
cats on catnip and cars on petrol
kids lighting explosives in the alley
no longer bother me. you could say they
save me from my subconscious
#katyamills
bang
the dreams wanted me
dead or alive. i blasted my way out
at 4am. now it’s midnight
i’m fighting sleep again
another rockstar another
bang
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12.22.21
the rains came down hard
sleep escaped me for some time i
dreamt my car was broken in and
had a run in with the cops
when i awoke i cried to the kittens who
replied by flourishes of tail
you only have today
so make the most! make
the most!
#katyamills
my novel MAZE is on giveaway:
wheat and chaff
in opposition to the world
while we sleep
like a philosopher devoted
2 make sense of it all
our dreams they
separate the wheat
from the chaff
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45
i found that when i slept for exactly six hours, my body and mind woke up rested and ready for the day. however, if i did not rise then and decided to sleep another hour, i had dreams and awoke feeling tired. forty-five years old and i am still learning how to sleep and when to rise. wow.
there is no work you cannot do when you are rested. so take your rest if you can, and do not be so busy for so long.
journal entry
Journal # 09.02.2016
Tomorrow I will be driving with a friend 2 hours north past Lake Tahoe to Reno so we can hike Mount Rose. This mountain has the highest base in the Tahoe range, somewhere around 8,000 feet. The peak is 10,000. No big deal, just a fun trip and a way for me to cross train. Honestly my body feels like hell still from last week’s 41 total miles running so I am happy to take another day off this week. I have felt progressively worse since the 13:7mile B2B. That was my first ever half marathon, so maybe it was an overexertion? It’s all a big experiment. My nutrition and sleep needs are also part of the equation. I have been drinking a lot of water and V8 juices and eating PB&J on whole wheat and oatmeal, and salmon. But I lapsed for a few days into sourdough bread with cheese and tomato, and even had a 5-egg cheese omelet yesterday for lunch with sausage. I convinced myself that I oughta clear out the remnants of my old diet from the fridge – by eating! Bad idea. I am expecting to lose 15-20 pounds by december for the CIM, so I can be at ideal race weight (I have lost about 5 this past month). I can tell my legs are much stronger, and my lungs are doing more with the oxygen because I am rarely out of breath anymore. I’ve been keeping up with yoga and running in sun and heat lately, because I cannot get off work until 830am (would prefer to hit the road around 700am). The good news is that I have been feeling fantastic when I am on the road or river trail and running. I think if I continue to stretch well, tweak the nutrition and cross train when my body tells me I should, pushing the limits on the long runs, I should be just fine and ahead of the Hal Higden schedule I am following. I kinda wish I had chosen a trail run like the AR25 instead of the road marathon for my rookie race, cause I’m finding that the trail is so much softer on the body. Wait! I did sign up for the AR Parkway inaugural 20 miler in November. Though it’s registered as a road race, I can only hope it will be hybrid, if they leave room for running on the margins of the bike trail, where there is indeed earth.
said.way
Remember feeling the unusual way like you walked through a wave while the classical played… like a ghost in a shell two atmospheres deep… i remember feeling said way, almost two years to the day…now, at long last, i can quiet the mind straight to sleep.
K IS SILENT 