Dark Takes Over

I am sitting at the reference desk, and suddenly, I realize that it is already dark outside. And before I leave work for the day. How can that be? I know the change in daylight hours is a gradual process, but I have been paying no attention. Daylight Savings Time speeds the process along, but really, until tonight, it hasn't hit me that I leave work in the dark now.

Maybe it has been the incredibly warm weather straight through November that made me think we were not close to winter yet. Maybe the recent snow jogged my awareness and said - Pay attention! Days are short. Soon you will be going to work in the dark and returning home in the dark.

I try to tell myself that it doesn't matter, but it does. I revel in sunlight. I suppose I have chosen to live in the wrong latitude. Not that I could survive equatorial living, but someplace where both ends of the day don't meet quite so soon for so much of the year. (it could be worse - I hear Alaska is desperate for workers and jobs are plentiful there).

Rather like getting old. Suddenly one day you wake up and realize you are aging. Where did the time go? Why doesn't my body work so well? And who made everything move so fast! I can do nothing about growing old or lengthening days. At least with the day thing, it self corrects! As for the body thing, I hear we get eternal ones after graduation. That could work.