but I also paid for it and this one on YouTube is free!
We all know the expression "forty winks" but that's not how I sleep. Twenty winks are about my maximum, if I fall asleep at all. While I wish I could sleep better, my almost lifelong insomnia hasn't bothered me - after all, there'll be plenty of time left to sleep when the time comes.
(No need to feel guilty, * name withheld to protect the guilty *. I was an insomniac long before your nocturnal acrobatics in the room next to mine in the company's sharehouse kept me awake most nights! 😄 )
One reason I don't mind my insomnia is that I don't toss and turn but use it to listen to ABC Radio National or any one of my countless audiobooks. Last night I listened to Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind" which is long enough to get me through the longest night.
There's nothing quite like the written word, and so I followed it up by reading the book while sitting on the sunlit verandah next morning - after all, you can't read all day unless you start early in the morning!
A strong coffee and a thick book - what more can you ask for on a sunny morning at "Riverbend"? (don't answer that; it's a rhetorical question! Or maybe not! Just ask Padma who has been meaning to drive into town for some shopping this morning but is still doddling about the place as she doesn't want to leave. That's what living at "Riverbend" does to you!)
All of Harari's books are worth a sleepless night, but "Sapiens" in particular, and I've sent an online copy to my ex-boss's son in Saudi Arabia - click here - and to Padma's nephew in Indonesia - click here.
