Come December’s shortest days, there are, amongst us, those who relish Burning the Midnight Oil, who revel in every blue-black hour’s saturating presence. These Night Bloomers, Know the Night, The Long Night, Faithful and Virtuous Night understand that as each day’s darkness lengthens its translucent filaments entwine with time’s endless line. This is the story, the same story read, every December by every eye witnessing the work of the earth. Here, evidence that this sphere rotates beneath us as we traverse by foot, wheel or wonder. We will go about our busyness, taking care or carelessly moving on with worry, wit and resolve to rejoice, live and die, in the best way possible, knowing that that cloak of sky And the Dark Sacred Night, will recede, just like that, every day and its night rounding the corner.
In each passing day and the next one after, light will stretch itself further and further into the space once occupied by December’s dark until it becomes encased In the Night of Memory.
Do not delay, this is the time of the Night Hawks winging by a Night at the Fiestas, time to take that Night Boat to Tangier so your head can turn, from one side to the other, following the spotlights of The Night Circus.
Entranced by spectacle and magic, comb the streets, brush up against The City in the Middle of the Night. These are the hours of San Francisco Noir where The Queen of the Night and her crew shimmy past you on Girl’s Night Out. Chance by The Night Watchman. He will tell you that there are 100 Things to See in the Night Sky. Don’t miss them!
That Good Night, This Brilliant Darkness is to be witnessed with wonder for surely, though it has happened a hundred, billion, trillion times each December is as new as you and will only come once in a lifetime. So, take yourself out, out into the Night + Market, find a comfy corner of the world in which to feast yourself full on the resource list The Thirty Names of the Night. Before your plate is licked clean, Spring will have sprung, bright and shiny as the dawn of day.
~ Posted by Chris
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