Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Morgan Week 4 Day 2

Morgan is at his brightest and best in the morning, a good time to stimulate and amuse him. I notice that he is lying somnolent – apparently asleep – and then a blissful and delightful smile comes, and "Lights up a little hour or two, Is gone!" Is he dreaming? Similar smiles erupt during the day too, but not quite the total and identifiable smile that one sees when he is sleeping. Is he remembering the glories that trail, to use Wordsworth’s phrase? It is amusing to see - when he is apparently asleep – how his sucking of the comforter bursts into brisk activity. Presumably it is consciousness fighting sleep. Morgan delights in his bath and this calms him.

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