It was three o’clock in this murky morning and I was trying to get into my dreams by slowly chewing through The Essence of Chaos by Edward Lorenz. "Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wing in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" Lorenz asked and the question kept perking me up. I tried to pretend that I was in the first National Siesta Championship competition in Madrid, visualizing myself as a sleepy horse with cool “stay apparatus” mechanism and earning points for being the loudest snorer or having the best original sleeping position.

“Competitions are for horses, not artists.” Béla Bartók once said. I thought about it for two seconds before being sucked into an opaque dream.

Ward-Meade Mansion at Old Prairie Town, located at Ward Meade Historic Site in Topeka, was constructed in 1870s by Anthony Ward and Mary Jane Ward. The building, built with limestone and brick, was inherited by Jennie, daughter of Anthony and Mary Jane and wife of John Mackey Meade, in 1897. In 1961, the city of Topeka purchased the building and surrounding property, aiming to create a historic park. The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.