The light stays on, even in the darkness

The sun rises around 6:30 in the morning, In a balanced world, the sun would rise at 6AM on the equinox and set at 6PM; the equinox is on Saturday morning. We have time zones, though, that shift the actual sunrise and sunset by a few minutes. In addition, the sunlight is refracted by the atmosphere, so the sunlight is visible a few minutes before the sun breaks the horizon and a few minutes after the sun sets.

By all of this, I mean to say that it's still dark when I go out to the driveway to get the morning papers. I'm still in the habit of glancing up to the window in the room that was my mother's. She would wake during the night, for several hours at a time. She used that time for reading and, most of all, writing.

The room has been dark in the mornings since, but we can still see the light as we continue to celebrate what she said and wrote and was.

RIP, TJL.