Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
[Susan Sontag]

Today, more from Gestures Toward a Theology of Sleep:

7. Why counting sheep? Where did we get that from? I’m not saying it has implicit Christological undertones, but…. doesn’t it? And what do they count in cultures that don’t have sheep?

8. “There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Unknown