Before there was an Internet I used to wake around 2:00 a.m.
I’d take the paper or a book to the sofa and read myself back to sleep. I still
tend to wander out of bed at the same time in the morning. But now I have far
more interesting reading options. The other night I was meandering on the web
(no one would call what I do surfing) and stumbled on an article about a lost
cow in Poland. She’d somehow escaped her pen and was spotted three months
later, living with a herd of wild European wood bison. There are plans to
separate her from the herd before mating season, when she might contaminate the
gene pool of this endangered species. Meanwhile, she seems to be healthy and
happy. She has (temporarily, at least) escaped her narrow cow life to become a
bison. Who can sleep when there are such stories out there?
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