Yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn

oh sweetly coveted pandiculation, i take this moment from the general rat race, that never-ending flow of word, thought & deed to touch the sky while keeping my feet pulling from my own lower torso while bending, twisting & contorting for a moment of muscular refreshment feeling the energy releasing from the stretching & the solace that comes with breathing out while just barely avoiding sleep in anticipation of that inevitable collapse to come--- still, the attempt to reach all the corners of the earth while opening our mouths as wide as we can unifies us with the rest of our species as well as those living amongst us on four legs, two clawed or legs bearing talons--- it makes one wonder if fish yawn... hmmm. *after a finnish study on “yawn contagiousness,” we’ve found that the mirror-neuron system which normally functions when we consciously mimic someone else in the attempt at learning, does not work in the same manner when we yawn--- in fact there is a belief that a certain part of the brain, the left periamygdalar region (associated with unconscious facial expressions) may deactivate--- even more fascinating is the idea that our ancestors may have yawned in order to show others that their alertness level was fading so that mutual sleeping patterns could be worked out in the day-- regardless of the reasons why we yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn, it does feel so good to have a great stretch, don’t it?