Blessed Summer Solstice, everyone!

[vulgarweed]

The dawn here is beautiful right now. Let me abuse R.E.M.: "It's a Maxfield Parrish sky / Let me show you what I can do with it..."

I'm a nocturnal person with an evening job: I only ever see sunrises when I'm awake already and I always take them as a sign it's time to go to sleep. (Like now.) The night is short; it will soon be long. The day is long; it will soon be short.

I don't read positive/negative into either of those things, and I don't like day = good, night = bad imagery AT ALL.

Solstices are extremes. Equinoxes are balance. We need both - and we also need temporal diversity.

Comments

[orpheus-samhain.livejournal.com]

I am/was a nocturnal person but for a few years I've noticed that lack of sunlight makes me depressed, or more precisely makes my depression worse. But I still like the night, only I need long days :)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It can have that effect on me too. I remember one year, when I'd first moved to Chicago, when I lived in an apartment that got no sunlight anyway - and it was an unusually dark, cloudy winter even by Chicago standards. We had like three sunny days between Halloween and Valentine's Day. I'm amazed my roommates and I made it through that one.