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Happy Lights

I don't mind the explaining over and over again what that funky light on my desk is: it's my happy light! I think the light therapy has been helping in big ways.  It's doesn't make me perfectly sane (that would take a miracle which is clearly God's department) but it is making a big difference in my well-being. The dawn simulator alarm clock is helping as well.  The snooze is a little to easy to use; I simply rap a knuckle on the base of the round clock and the sounds abate for 10 minutes.  The light still stays on though.  The bird sounds have proved to be too much like the water fountain for my cat's water dish.  So I use the farm noises and the yoga sounds.  Both are great. Although it's a little weird to hear a cow mooing in the morning.  Even when I lived out in the country in Iowa I wasn't near enough to farms to hear that. So as long as I keep on myself about my vitamins and meds and eating regularly, (which can be surprisingly hard when you'r

just another snow day

crunch of ice under our boots myriad animal tracks cross the trivial path leading from your house to mine comparing snow people playing hide-and-snowball-seek freeze tag takes on a new dimension never imagining this day could end nor this era of life fade away to someday less-than-vivid memories perchance even sepia-toned dreams laugh and play and sled and live our winter land child days away