Eli on Thinking and Sleeping

Eli called me into to his room tonight just after he went to bed. He was lying there clutching his latest and biggest stuffed animal (a rainbow colored octopus he named Sephie (short for cephalopod, but must be spelled with an "s").

- I can't sleep, he said. Too many thoughts are racing through my head.
- About what?
- All kinds of things. The past, the present, the future.
- What of the past?
- My birthday party.
- And the present?
- Bubi and Zadie. [His grandparents.]
- And the future?
- Life.

 Lately, this happens to me almost every night around 4:45 am. Wide awake I fight with my racing thoughts about the past, present and future. The early morning incidence must be a sign of old age. Or maybe too much wine...