The alpacas have adopted a pet.

( I wish I'd had a video camera handy. )

Disconnect

I am literally staggering because I'm so tired, and yet I can't fall asleep. My brain will not shut down long enough for my body to take over. It's been this way since I was a child, and I still haven't learned how to manage this weird disconnect. Brain worms, I call them; swirling around, thoughts and pictures and snatches of songs and jarring leaps from one subject to another. It's immensely frustrating, even more so when all around you there is the soft snoring of everyone else who can just . . . shut down. How do you do that? I can't be the only one who suffers this noxious form of insomnia, can I? Speak up, out there.

Before I go

I'm practically falling out of my chair from being so sleepy (and it's all natural, not a pharmaceutical in sight), but I wanted to post this YouTube clip of Antony singing "If It Be Your Will" from Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man. This is one of the most moving performances I've ever seen; I have to track down more music from him. I understand that he and his group (Antony & the Johnsons) won Britain's Mercury award last year for their CD "I'm a Bird Now."

Anyway, let's see if I can post this correctly.

Watch on YouTube