How time flies… it seems only a few short weeks ago that I was counting the days until midsummer, watching the days grow longer and longer. It seems just yesterday that the sun rose at five a.m, and here it is, 7:15 in the morning, and it’s black as midnight with no sign that morning’s to come.

It’s no wonder the ancients feared the sun was disappearing into the night as winter fell. It almost feels that way to me, too, and I know the science behind it. And the darkness isn’t finished. We’re two months from Yule - two months before the sun god is born again, until the days will begin to grow longer once more.

This year has sped by like lightning, and I can’t help but miss it. As a child, every day feels long as a week, and every week like a year, and every year an eternity. As an adult, I can barely keep track of the days, let alone months, and years? Has it really ben ten months since 2006 began? It doesn’t seem possible.

I miss the sunlight more working nights. The flourescent lighting in the office aids my biological clock, but it won’t be long before I walk home as the sun peeks over the horizon, and awaken after it has set. It won’t be long before I never see it at all.

Perhaps I ought to splurge on one of those sun lamps that people use for SAD. I don’t even have flourescents in my house any longer (and boy, can I tell… it seems so dark… even with five lamps lit up in the room!), and I fear that I may need a bit of sunshine, even if it is artificial, to weather out these long nights ahead.

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