From: blchapma@eos.ncsu.edu (BEKKI LYN)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: night and winter
Date: 27 Sep 92 20:22:13 GMT
Reply-To: blchapma@eos.ncsu.edu (BEKKI LYN)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Originator: blchapma@c00028-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu


Janis Cortese writes:
>Anyone else out there like nighttime and winter?

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the chills that the crisp air sends down the back of
my neck, and the smell.... the smell of the coldness is the
best of all.

I actually like all of the seasons, but being very fair-skinned,
the sun is too much for me to tolerate sometimes and I don't
like the sun's glare too much when it's very bright outside.
In the summer, I'm generally a shade person.

I love being able to bundle up underneath lots of covers when
I sleep, knowing that it's freezing outside, but I'm toasty 
warm within.  It's great when I can sleep in for as long as I
want.  It is not too pleasant for me to have to wake up in
the cold when it's still morning and wanting so intensely to
stay under the covers.  (Those are the days when I wish I was
a morning person).

Yet, after the sun goes down and I'm not woozy from just having
gotten up, I can enjoy both the cold and the night.  It seems
so mysterious, like an enchantment, when the icy wind swirls 
around me.  Although I get irritated with having to have
cars and streetlights around most of the time, I sometimes
try to pretend they're really faery-lights.

It is especially fun to walk around away from cars and see the gleam
of the moonlight on twisted trees that have been iced over.

An enchanted forest indeed.

Oh no, I am not afraid at all of the natural night.  However, I must
unfortunately always be on guard against unenlightened humans who
must insist upon spoiling it all by either making comments like
"that's real stupid", or outright attacking me because I'm a lone
person walking around at night.

The one complaint I have is that I rarely ever can see my surroundings
blanketed by a deep layer of snowfall.  My sled has been stored in the
attic for over two years.  Sigh.

And then, the winter does make the spring and summer months more
glorious to me.  

An Autumn is full of anticipation.

Autumn does sometimes have an evil ominousness about it, but yet that
that sense of fear to me is wonderful.  It is not a dangerous fear, but
one that I am a part of.  Like I can call out to others:  "Look!
I can show you something here, something you don't know, but one that
you would want to know if you knew it."  The fear of the unknown.
The exhilaration of the search to find it.  

I know I'm probably not making any sense up there, but it's a strange
sort of feeling that I have trouble finding words for.

-- 

Bekki Lyn

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"All's well at the midnight hour; you're ready to fly
 Don't think about the darkness, or the rumbling in the sky.
 Somewhere on the morning road just waiting for you
 Some things that just could never be are calling up a
   spell so you can see..
 Dream Evil, the dark that you find in the back of your mind
 Dream Evil Dream Evil -- DIO --
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