by Barbara Latta
The lights are out. The house is quiet.
Yet sleep evades us.
The mind wanders and finds things we hadn’t even thought
about for years or invents possibilities that haven’t happened yet.
There are some physical things we can do that will relax our
bodies such as limit screen time, avoid foods that disagree with our stomachs, and
stay away from violent movies and TV shows that raise emotional responses.
But the minute the room is dark and the TV is off, even if all these physical requirements are followed, thoughts of disaster still race through the space of our brains like a rocket on a mission to the moon.
