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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Such a Sense of Urgency...
  • Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:48:40 -0500

Sandy; you may be right about hibernating. My body doesn't care about daylight savings time...I wake up when the sun comes up and get tired when it goes down. I feel like I could sleep 12 hours a night in the winter. I'm awake at 5am in the summer, but in the winter, if it's a really dark morning, I sometimes don't wake up until the sky brightens up. Not good for getting the kids off to school.

I think you are talking about Seasonal Affective Disorder. I try to get out on sunny days and get as much sun as I can. A long string of grey days affects my mood.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

----- Original Message ----- From: <Bunjov AT aol.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:50 PM
Subject: [Homestead] Such a Sense of Urgency...


Just curious - such a flood of homestead emails the past few days!

Makes me wonder about the Daylight Savings thing - I know it's a 'manmade
issue', and so I've always discounted it as rubbish, and as one more instance of
humans messing with Mother Nature. But -

Does anyone else feel the horrible pressure of shorter days? The irony of
all this being...I have been going to bed earlier (say, 7-8 p.m.) and waking at
my normal 1-2:30 a.m., but...going back to bed just as the sun breaks
through the trees to the east, and all the indoor critters are just getting
started, waiting for me to open doors and windows - and I feel compelled to re-wrap
myself up in my fuzzy blankets and return to total oblivion.

Something is not right here.

Is it true, this concept of 'winter depression? There's a name for it -
starts with an 'S', but I can't remember it. If it IS a reality, then do those of
us on the list, who live in the northern parts of the world, suffer from this
more than those of us who live in the southern and western areas?

The depression is not the worst part. I am increasingly 'antsy' about
leaving the house - at all - to do anything. Driving into town now, to keep
doctors' appointments, and even do the simplest of shopping, have become major
endeavors. Scary. Could this be some sort of primal urge to hibernate until the
days grow longer and 'things' start to grow again (including myself)?

Please don't laugh at my questions.

And we haven't heard from Don yet. His input - because he is such a 'reader'
- is always welcome.

Sandy
Mid-Mojave
Yawning and stretching at almost 11:00 a.m. and wondering where the day has
gone. What a waste.



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