We need light for the colors I showed yesterday, but darkness has it’s value.\u00a0 There are people, my husband is one, who shut down without light.\u00a0 They just don’t function. They get depressed.\u00a0 They wan to go to bed.\u00a0 They have trouble accomplishing things.\u00a0 They need the light to function.<\/p>\n
Then, there’s me.\u00a0 I do okay during the day.\u00a0 Light has a lot of value.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong, but I find darkness relaxing and freeing.\u00a0 I love to walk in the late evening.\u00a0 Back when I could still run, I’d get up at three thirty in the morning, do my run, and come back to bed for an hour before having to get up and go to work.\u00a0 Years ago, it helped me deal with stress in my life.\u00a0 Now, I’m a happier more relaxed person (I think being retired helps that), I find I don’t need to wander the darkness so much to find a centering place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We need light for the colors I showed yesterday, but darkness has it’s value.\u00a0 There are people, my husband is one, who shut down without light.\u00a0 They just don’t function. They get depressed.\u00a0 They wan to go to bed.\u00a0 They have trouble accomplishing things.\u00a0 They need the light to function. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-z-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}