Daylight Saving Time1 kicked in yesterday, and lots of people seem upset. I’m not one of them. I time my runs with the sunrise, and an earlier start means I won’t be late for work. Ergo, I won’t have to give up sights like this — the blue hour from this morning:
And I actually appreciate the earlier evenings. Nighttime is intimate, personal, and reflective.
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
“A Clear Midnight” by Walt Whitman
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
Night, sleep, death and the stars.
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1 “Saving” is correct. Most people get it wrong and say “savings.”2
2 You can take the boy out of journalism, but you can’t take journalism out of the boy.