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item0060D 906, 907 906 9 January 2004 Ni cheir da o hir gysguI should translate. The headline means No good comes of long sleep. In Welsh, of course.
 Most proverbs
reverberate throughout Europe, popping up in similar forms in several different
languages. Stitches in time save nine, early birds catch worms, birds in hand are
preferred - in many different European languages. But it is
only in Welsh
(not French,
not German, not Russian) that I have ever found the proposition
that
No good comes from long sleep.
Yet that is precisely what has been reported to the American Association for the Advancement of Science "Too much sleep can kill you", Daily Telegraph This survey, with 1.1 million participants, was the first large-scale six-year study to take into consideration variables such as age, diet, exercise, health problems and risk factors such as smoking. You are at greater risk of early death, the study says, if you find yourself sleeping more than 8 hours a day, or less than 4. The study average turned out to be 6.5 hours.
What do you think about "long sleep"? Drop me a line
907 12 January 2003 This is my religion
I consider myself religious because I am committed to the search for an "eternity" for life itself - I believe that such an enabling coherence exists, in whatever terms it may be designated - man's task (my task) is to cultivate ways of life which will ensure the eternal continuity of life as we know it - and although I acknowledge that I am "culturally-conditioned" by my upbringing, I find the teachings of Jesus the best guide to eternal survival in that sense - that's politics too, for me.  I
can also see that man's current behaviour is more likely to lead to
extinction than to eternal life. That is the challenge we
face, and it is both spiritual and political. That is why I post for you this
"new"
New Year's Day 2004
photograph, from the Hubble telescope.
That blue "cloud" is
60 light-years wide - this should be
our
real
source of "shock and awe"..
"Discover
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I am in awe
of the Hubble telescope and its revelations - in awe at the world of
energy and massive activity that it reveals - and convinced that I must
find the link between that "Hubble" world and the mundanities of
everyday human life, of everything we can observe on this planet - that
energy seems to me to be benign not malign, ordered not chaotic.