World sunlight map
Today is the first day of fall, and there is exactly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness at the equator. A bit more, a bit less, depending where you live on our globe. Ready or not, the daylight hours will dwindle until the Winter Solstice.
"I have come to a still, but not a deep
center,
A point outside the glittering current;
My eyes stare at the bottom of a river,
At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains,
My mind moves in more than one place,
In a country half-land, half-water.
I am renewed by death, thought of my death,
The dry scent of a dying garden in September,
The wind fanning the ash of a low fire.
What I love is near at hand,
Always, in earth and air."
A point outside the glittering current;
My eyes stare at the bottom of a river,
At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains,
My mind moves in more than one place,
In a country half-land, half-water.
I am renewed by death, thought of my death,
The dry scent of a dying garden in September,
The wind fanning the ash of a low fire.
What I love is near at hand,
Always, in earth and air."
Theodore Roethke
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