Stay up and listen to lightening. If there is no lightening around, stay up and listen to nothing. Just listen to the sheer joy of your thoughts trans-versing from one corner of your brain to the next.

Have hot, wild sex with a friend. Then go out and do something stupid, like bowl, afterwards.

If you've been taught to keep every part of you to yourself, don't expect people to come knocking on your door to run their hands over the choice parts-either for your pleasure or theirs.

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's.

Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

Stay up and listen to lightening. If there is no lightening around, stay up and listen to nothing. Just listen to the sheer joy of your thoughts trans-versing from one corner of your brain to the next.