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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Such a Sense of Urgency...
  • Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:30:14 -0800 (PST)

--- On Wed, 12/10/08, Bunjov AT aol.com <Bunjov AT aol.com> wrote:


> 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?

Some people are helped by the special lights that copy the daylight spectrum.
My wife has had some success with that. sitting in front of the light for a
couple of hours can help.
Van Dell




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