Reply #23: Amen. After a week of not sleeping, I actually got five hours sleep last night.

[Fly by night]

Much needed and much appreciated.

Thanks to the kindness of friends and the kind-ness of their friends.

It all goes around and around. Now to put more wood on the fire and to climb up on the exercise bike. While cycling to nowhere in my stove room, I am reading a new book "Broken -- A Love Story" about a Northern Arapaho healer, who is also a quadraplegic horse trainer. I've just started reading the book and realized that this remarkable man was the person who, after leading a peyote ceremony on the Wind River rez' seven years ago, told another Arapaho friend to call me and let me know that, in his vision, he saw that I would not be going to prison.

That call came six months before the judge sentenced me to probation (when I was facing 10-70 years in prison.) It also came when I smelled the cedar and sage of their prayerful ceremony on the western wind, sitting on my front porch drinking my early morning coffee.

It is indeed a small (loving, caring, protecting) world. I am honored to have worked with the Arapaho and thankful for the kindness (and cosmic connection) of one of their healers who I've never met (yet).

Just like you and others here at DU.