I’m a Dusk person, not a Dawn person. I’m Saturday Night Live versus CBS Sunday Morning. I hate the Damocles sword of an alarm clock hanging over my consciousness when I go to bed. I find it hard to make it to early morning meetings. I almost have to sleep in my workout clothes in order to get to an a.m. spinning class. I try to eat breakfast every day, but I don’t really love solid food before my soul has had time to resettle in my body after wandering all night God knows where. But when the day begins to wind down, I wake up. I look forward to leaving my shoes at the door, taking a shower, putting on PJs and sauteing onions in olive oil when I come home from work. If I go out, the conviviality of Happy Hour makes me feel like I’m living in Hemingway’s Paris. I love the evening news, technicolor sunsets in winter, dinner parties, gentle shadows that soothe the tired earth, reading until 2am, thunderstorms that wake me up in the dark and night-owl guardian angels who watch over me when I finally turn out the lights.
BEAUTY! I know how you feel and wish I could have put it in words as lovely. I love when we go back from daylight savings time in the Fall and when I lived/worked in suburban Chicago I adored the ride home from the train, passing homes with the warm yellow light glowing through their windows and the life glimpsed inside.
I'm exactly the same way, truly awake when I finally get home from work and unable to wind down in time to go to bed at a reasonable hour. So the cycle of not having enough sleep goes on indefinitely…
yeah – I'm a night bunny too – perhaps that's when you'll write ur bestseller.
no sounds, no people, no telephones, the puppies asleep, dressing gown made of memories uninterrupted, who could say the same about the morning? Like you, I just simply cannot get myself asleep before the coming dawn most of the time.
I think my Circadian clock, like me, goes on against the common tide. Sleep be damned, there will be enough time for that later…
ditto. ditto. ditto. (and let's go to paris please). x
This photo is dusk in Tuscany and I want to do one in Paris!
just found your blog by way of Dispatch from L.A. and i'm looking forward to many hours of delight. love your voice. love your way of putting things together.
here's a taos dusk for you
http://www.pbase.com/magpiejst/image/31633751