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Sleep and dreams! Dreams and sleep! Dreamed of doing exercises. I was in a class or at a spa and people were working out. I was as well and experimenting with the exercises to see if I could coax more benefit from the activities. I awoke energized.

But as the day unfolded (warm, sunny day), I ended up napping out for just about the entire afternoon. Just wanted to sleep. Maybe the dream workout was too strenuous. Not likely, but I did sleep the afternoon away.

Made it to the library. Elizabeth Hand's other story collection was not in the catalog. Too bad! I was looking forward to reading more of her work, but didn't want to read one of her novels. The collection I just read, Saffron and Brimstone, had four stories that were like variations on a theme--based upon her epistolary relationship with a person that she seldom sees or talks with on the telephone, but with whom she has exchanged letters for some number of years.

The stories captured that sense of presence, but absence, evoked by communications with someone who is almost always away. The subtitle of the collection, strange stories, says it all. The stories were strange yet compelling. I wanted to read more, but not a whole novel. My attention span is not ready for a long story. Short ones are my cup of tea.

Going to a sound healing session in the morrow. Will be interesting to experience whatever takes place there. No heater needed tonight (or today). Warm spring night!