A blanket of silence cloaks the intrinsic explosion of energy taking place under the surface, in the seemingly dead branches, in the underground roots that burst with the potential for […]

Winter dawns over the still of Blue Lake In a faint glow of near-lightness, the limp branches fall over the shimmering reflection of the trembling water surface, blending in a […]

Confessions of a friend: Sleep scientists now speak of states in which the brain is neither awake nor sleeping, but both. According to Rubin Naiman at the Center for Integrative […]

Confessions of a friend: Maybe insomnia itself is a portal that encourages trafficking between the conscious and unconscious minds. On the one hand, as Alice Robb argues in her new […]

Confessions of a friend: After all, once in a while, an unexpectedly profound thought will suddenly coalesce out of the dying remnants of a dream — and then I chase […]

Confessions of a friend: Just as artists, writers and seekers have used various creative methos to expand their minds, so have many sleepless souls wondered at one time or other […]

Confessions of a friend: All your senses are heightened at night; everything is amplified. When you hear rustling leaves, it is as if you can pick out each individual flutter. […]