Vou dormir em paz

I will sleep in peace.

Last night I pulled out a blanket to put on my bed. It’s still getting warm during the day, but being a desert, it cools off real fast at night. Down in the 40s even! (I can see my dad laughing at me right now.) So I pulled out my patch quilt.

It’s a real heavy quilt. It’s the first one I kind of sort of pieced. My mom and I cut up her scrap sweat material into a bunch of squares and sewed them all together. We used a high loft batting and then used a fuschia sweat material on the back. It’s the most miss matched fabric colors ever. We tied it with white yarn. Then, we took all the patches I’d collected over the years and sewed them on the squares. I’m still adding new patches as I get them. But between the fabric and the batting, it’s quite the hefty quilt. And I love it. I love sleeping under a whole bunch of weighty blankets. I’ll get out my down comforter in a few more weeks and that will just add even more weight. There’s something secure about feeling that on you when you sleep.

I also have to have my pillows with me when I sleep. Not exactly necessarily my pillows, just pillows in the right places. I have an extremely firm pillow made of a piece of black and white fake fur that I put in the middle of my bed and I put my back to it. I also have a body pillow I hold in front of me. Then I can sleep soundly. Even when I’m in a hotel I put one pillow behind me and one in front of me.

But there is more to sleeping soundly than just heavy blankets and good pillows.

A peaceful night’s sleep also involves knowing I did everything I absolutely needed to do that day. It involves knowing I did the best I could at what I did. It means leaving no regrets from the day. It means saying what needed to be said (more on that tomorrow). There have been many nights where that has been my reason for writing my journal before going to sleep.

Mostly, it means laying down with a clear mind, a clear conscious, and a clear heart. With a peaceful mind and a peaceful heart, you can truly sleep in peace.

And with that, it is time to sleep.