Another birthday, quite nice actually. Good meal out, carrier for my camera with long lenses, good walk and lots of well wishes. No, I don’t feel any older than yesterday, or the day before, but something tells me I am. Time is a funny marker it seems. The time in the morning for sunrise is 5:57 and sunset, 9:02 I think. Just about the most sunlight you can get in one day around here.
It still throws me a bit since we rise with the sunrise but don’t quite lie down with the sunset. My body still wants to go go go after 9pm. That was built in to me I think. I’ve made some progress toward an earlier bedtime, but now that the sun is slowly turning back in on itself, I wonder how it will affect my sleep cycle.
It’s not all at once of course and that throws a touch of uncertainty in to the whole endeavor. I try to watch nature for clues, hoping the birds will reach out to me and have a chat about the Franklinite wisdom of Early to Bed Early To Rise thing he supposedly was famous for. But no birds seem interested in chatting with me about it.
My wife does it naturally it seems so she is some help but not fully experienced in my night owl dilemma. When sundown arrives her yawn count goes up naturally, winter or summer it seems. I don’t get that so much. Maybe I’m yawning all day. No, not really.
She seems to be fully in tune with natures ever changing consistencies. I’m about half there. We’ll see what next years birthday brings.
