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Why I Adore the Night, by Jeanette Winterson
The balance between being and doing is hard. We are obsessed with doing - and when we are not doing, we are looking at our phones, which is the doing that has replaced being. How to build a self ? How to find time to reflect? Time off has become the exercise class, self-improvement, a trip to the therapist, a vacation where the to-do and to-see lis
... See moreJeanette Winterson • SUMMER SOLSTICE 2022
Like the impressionists, we see a magical sense of ambiance in cities that never sleep; places where we don’t have to pick between living as morning larks or night owls, a place where dawn-to-dusk and dusk-to-dawn can flourish simultaneously and cross pollinate; where the vice of darkness and virtue of mornings can be experienced in equal amounts.
Alexi Gunner • Idle Gaze 062: Dawn Chorus / Dusk Chorus
Night-time is womb-time. Our souls come out to play. The darkness absolves everything;
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Restrict outdoor blue-spectrum light at the societal level, particularly lights that shine upward and outward at all hours of the night. Nighttime darkness is healthy; twenty-four-hour light is not, and is even implicated in higher rates of disease.17 Furthermore, humans deserve a night sky, a sky full of possibilities—sometimes of clouds, often th
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