I Fell on Black Days
Sep. 29th, 2005 08:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randy_byersIt's been true for a while, but today was the first that I woke up and thought (with an internal groan), "It's still dark." The sky was just lightening as I walked out the door of the house a half hour later. It's overcast today, too, so even now that it's light, it's dark. Before too long, I'll be going to work in the dark and returning home in the dark. Of course, not long after that, the days will start to get longer again, although that will still be mostly a state of mind.
I've become more and more sensitive to changes in the length of the day as I get older. The advantage of it is that when winter solstice rolls around, it gives me hope, even though the days are still short. The disadvantage is that it has put a damper on my sense of summer, because I've become aware that in summer the days are shrinking. Thus spring is now the happiest time of year, whereas in my college days, autumn was my favorite (and I still love the fogs of fall).
In any event, the walks to work this week have felt heavily narcoticized. I feel sleepy all the time. I've begun to contemplate putting a comforter over the quilt, although it's still too early for that.
However, through the grey gloom I think I hear a faint Scottish voice saying, "Luxury!" Or perhaps it's from Edmonton.
I've become more and more sensitive to changes in the length of the day as I get older. The advantage of it is that when winter solstice rolls around, it gives me hope, even though the days are still short. The disadvantage is that it has put a damper on my sense of summer, because I've become aware that in summer the days are shrinking. Thus spring is now the happiest time of year, whereas in my college days, autumn was my favorite (and I still love the fogs of fall).
In any event, the walks to work this week have felt heavily narcoticized. I feel sleepy all the time. I've begun to contemplate putting a comforter over the quilt, although it's still too early for that.
However, through the grey gloom I think I hear a faint Scottish voice saying, "Luxury!" Or perhaps it's from Edmonton.
