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Imagine that you are a little grave box. Culled up, warm and snug in your thick, fur coat.

Soaking up the heat and comfort of your safe, dark den.

Beneath you is a soft bed made of the dried grasses and lichens that line your cozy sleeping chamber.

You have just begun to stir from a long, restful sleep. And your still groggy mind is in no hurry to wake

up. You blink your eyes in the dark a few times. Slowly registering that a little bit of the dawn

light has made its way down your tunnel and into your sleeping room.

As your awareness gently builds, you find yourself curling and stretching your toes in all four feet,

feeling them lengthen until they reach their peak stretch. Then your legs begin to straighten out

and move as well. Soon all of your limbs reach that blissful feeling of a good stretch.

Before they relax and settle back into the straw.

Almost without your knowledge, your body takes a deep breath to bring oxygen to all of those muscles.

And your brain responds by waking up just a little bit more.

Your mind drifts to the outside world and your curiosity moves your body to slowly roll itself

upright to face the entrance of your sleep chamber. You sniff the air, gathering the first of the

days news that travels into you from outside through myriad sense. You smell the fresh and salty

sea air. You smell the dust of a dry, sunny day and the familiar plants that grow outside your

tunnel like sagebrush and dried grasses. You're in no particular rush to get anywhere. But now you are

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