I’ve heard it said that no day is so bad that it can’t be made better with a nap. As far back as I can remember, Mama rested every afternoon
after lunch. I loved seeing her propped up in her bed reading a hardback novel. Sometimes I’d crawl in beside her, and sit for a while just taking in her sweet scent and watching her flip the pages lickety-split. As the years went by, she switched to less heavy paperbacks, and later when her eyes weren’t as strong, she listened to fiction from Alabama’s Talking Book Library. But the routine stayed the same—read a bit, doze off, then wake up and read again.
People are also reading… Beatrix Potter described feminine fatigue as being “worn to a raveling.” And, it seems that these days most of us are threadbare and sleep-deprived. But, somewhere over the years, napping got a bad name. They’ve become underrated, and like other nappers I know, I’m embarrassed to tell folks I’m on my way home to rest. I’m quick to share the fact that I eat a healthy diet and take long walks.
Emily Bronte, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats and Robert Frost were all literary insomniacs. It’s too bad they didn’t know that creative napping can be productive. Johannes Brahms napped regularly at his piano while he was composing. One day he woke up and transcribed the world’s most famous lullaby.
Winston Churchill, on the other hand, made no effort to hide his midday siestas. His naps were so serious and well known, some use the term “Churchillian nap” to mean one of epic proportions, taken in bed, wearing pajamas.
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