hibernate J-Rock wake up. shed my skin. be a new me. 020405 ... chanaka it's that time... 020406 ... Alvarny Hibernate and rejuvenate. I need a really long sleep, to have the body renewed, to see everything anew... 050817 ... crOwl we are bear-like. 050817 ... unhinged it's a dream of mine 050817 ... ovenbird The rains have returned, and the winds that turn the sky into a river. When I came to this place (just half the age I am now) I hated the sodden winter, and the dark felt like a wet wool blanket, damp and suffocating. Now it feels like freedom, permission to put on pyjamas at five o’clock (because who, in their right mind, would go out in THAT?), an invitation to quiet introspection. With so little light to insist on action, I crawl into bed guilt-free and range my books around me so I can admire the stash that will sustain me until spring. Why does the world want to take this from me? My necessary restoration? My gentle healing? My deepest self? 261106 what's it to you? who go blather from