The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep. ~E. Joseph Cossman     Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. ~Thich Nhat Hanh     A good night’s sleep is helpful if you are feeling generally cranky and tired. But it seems to me that if there is a major problem, a crisis, all that happens is you go to sleep, you wake up, you remember what’s going on in about five seconds, and you’re in a state of shock. Again. One little recess from the terrible is not going to be much of a bridge between despair and much of anything. It takes something more. And, in my experience, this…