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Surviving the End of Year Darkness
Finish this Year in Peace, Start Next Year in Power
Does anyone like the time change? And by “time change,” I mean the two days a year when we flop back and forth as to what hour it “actually is”, putting our well-being under considerable strain?
This autumnal one hits especially hard, I think.
The darkness of night has already started to leak naturally into our daylight hours, and now we artificially unplug the dam that held it at bay. People who — just last week — were arriving home from work in daylight will now be leaving their places of work in twilight, and arriving home in total darkness.
This is happening at the same time that, in the Northern Hemisphere, the weather is getting colder and vegetation is dying. Wild animals, in their feral wisdom, are hunkering down for the winter.
It’s natural to want to hibernate, to have the urge to bulk up and rest.
But instead of resting, the “holidays” are about to start. I put the word in quotes because, for most of…