Dawn
As I write, the sun's just coming up over the ocean, red and fiery. I couldn't sleep much after 05:30 and I managed (astonishingly!) to get out of bed without waking up Michael or disturbing Toby, and I've crept downstairs to the other side of the house with a cup of green tea with jasmine, for some quiet time before I have to get everyone up in a while and start the routine of school again.
Where I'm sitting, downstairs in the office at the front of the house, I've got a partial view of the small mountain across the valley, and it's been lovely watching the colours of the mountainside change from dull shadows through to a faint rosy glow and, as now, joyful orangey sunshine. There is something potent about sunshine. I'm not half as ready to jump out of bed on a miserable day as I am when the sun's up and the world seems happy...
The sunshine won't get to this side of the house until the afternoon, so it's cold inside and out down here. My internal/external thermometer tells me that it's 16° C inside the room and only 11° C outside, but my weather station tells me that it's more like 3° C outside with the wind chill factor - so you see, it does get cool, even here!
I suspect that the main reason I've been up so early is that I'm jet-lagged. For the first time I've been taking Melatonin tablets to try and avoid it, but it's only been partially successful. For one thing, we had two different types of tablet and we've learned by experience that one is better than the other. But an additional reason that I've been waking up earlier is that I'm not comfortable in bed, having wrenched my neck really badly in April. Despite chiropractic treatment it seems that I have permanently damaged something in the region of vertebra 2, right under my skull, and while it isn't painful, it can be uncomfortable if I lie in the wrong way... it's very boring.
Doubtless when we're back into our routines here I shall slip back into my usual sleep patterns, but in the meantime it's been fun watching the sun rise on a few consecutive days.
Where I'm sitting, downstairs in the office at the front of the house, I've got a partial view of the small mountain across the valley, and it's been lovely watching the colours of the mountainside change from dull shadows through to a faint rosy glow and, as now, joyful orangey sunshine. There is something potent about sunshine. I'm not half as ready to jump out of bed on a miserable day as I am when the sun's up and the world seems happy...
The sunshine won't get to this side of the house until the afternoon, so it's cold inside and out down here. My internal/external thermometer tells me that it's 16° C inside the room and only 11° C outside, but my weather station tells me that it's more like 3° C outside with the wind chill factor - so you see, it does get cool, even here!
I suspect that the main reason I've been up so early is that I'm jet-lagged. For the first time I've been taking Melatonin tablets to try and avoid it, but it's only been partially successful. For one thing, we had two different types of tablet and we've learned by experience that one is better than the other. But an additional reason that I've been waking up earlier is that I'm not comfortable in bed, having wrenched my neck really badly in April. Despite chiropractic treatment it seems that I have permanently damaged something in the region of vertebra 2, right under my skull, and while it isn't painful, it can be uncomfortable if I lie in the wrong way... it's very boring.
Doubtless when we're back into our routines here I shall slip back into my usual sleep patterns, but in the meantime it's been fun watching the sun rise on a few consecutive days.
posted by Sara Bowen at 9:49 pm
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