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Weekly Photo challenge – Time

07 Sunday Feb 2016

Posted by RuthsArc in one with nature, weekly photo challenge

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Insomnia
Time drags in the dark hours
Toss and turn
Look at the clock
Only a few minutes have passed since you last checked

Dawn
Time flies as the world awakens
Birds chorus
Light changes minute by minute
Look at the clock, time to start your day

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If you hadn’t been awake in the pre dawn
You would only know a grey cloudy morning
Not the joyous colours of the passage of time

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Time

The early hours

07 Friday Aug 2015

Posted by RuthsArc in all about me, midlife, one with nature

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I’m awake.
My head says I should be asleep.
I’ve tossed and turned for a while.
My arm has gone numb so I change position again.
I don’t want to look at the clock.
My body feels tired.
My mind won’t switch off.
The gentle snoring next to me is not soothing,
It is a frustration.
I check the time.
4.21 am.
I’m thirsty.
I get up.
I make a mug of tea.
I walk to the lounge window.
The night sky is beautiful this morning.
A waning quarter moon,
Just a few small fleeting clouds.
The lights of Hobart in the distance,
Reflecting on the harbour.

We have a wonderful waterfront view,
From our lounge and balcony.
I stand in the dark.
Orion is instantly recognisable.
It was the first constellation I learned
in my early astronomy classes.
A favourite.
Although now upside down to the
northern hemisphere pattern.
I see Taurus, Aries, Pegasus, Pisces.
Familiar formations in the northern sky.
But to the south, still so much to learn.
I can recognise Crux, the Southern Cross
and it’s two pointer stars.
The brighter one, Alpha Centauri,
is the closest star to Earth.
I look to the southern sky,
with a phone app to guide me,
until I identify two more constellations,
Canis Major and Puppis.

Something catches my eye.
A light moving across the sky,
north to south east.
Sky Guide confirms my thought,
ISS.
The International Space Station
glides amongst the stars.
A steady light as it travels,
in it’s orbit.
A circuit of the Earth
every ninety minutes.
Six people living in space.
Working in zero gravity,
to increase our understanding
of various aspects of science.
What a view they have of our world
from four hundred kilometres high.
Multiple sunrise, sunsets.
An aerial view of continents and oceans.
Our home planet.

Now, as I write this,
Listening to music,
Time is irrelevant.
The sky is lightening in the east.
I can hear birds awakening.
Ducks are swimming.
Early kayaker’s are paddling by.
Traffic increases towards the city.
Sea birds search for breakfast,
perch on rocks,
as the tide goes out.
Black sky turns to blue,
orange, turquoise.
Vivid colours constantly changing.
The stars gradually disappear.
The moon follows it’s path
towards the west.
Orange fades to yellow.
The sun inches above the horizon,
lighting the world for a brand new day.

No matter what occurs in the daylight hours
Something good has already happened today

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100 word challenge – Insomnia

03 Tuesday Mar 2015

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100 word challenge – this week’s prompt is … so what time did you say it was?…

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She was tired after a busy Monday. She went to bed around her usual time, an hour before midnight.

Suddenly she was wide awake. She was too hot under the covers. She didn’t want to look at the clock, she just wanted to go back to sleep.

She tossed and turned, trying not to disturb her husband. She waited, laid still, eyes closed, attempting to calm her mind. It felt as though she’d been awake for hours.

Her husband rolled over. “So what time did you say it was?”

Reluctantly she looked at the clock. It was 1.22 am.

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Insomnia

24 Sunday Aug 2014

Posted by RuthsArc in all about me, midlife, one with nature

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It’s just after 4am……..again.

I’ve been in bed for 5 hours but am suddenly awake…. Wide awake.

Sometimes I wake after only a couple of hours sleep. That is more frustrating. Today, it’s the weekend, so I have the flexibility to sleep in when I finally do go back to bed or to catch a nap later in the day if needed.

I’m not fighting it any more. I know I’m awake, so I put on a side lamp and pull out a book to read.

Or get up quietly, go downstairs, make a cup of tea and do something.

Look at the night sky, perfect time for star gazing.

Check facebook….. there is usually something new when you have family and friends in different time zones.

Look at twitter….. the world never stops.

Read the last few articles in that magazine I bought two weeks ago, rushed through, then put aside, but haven’t quite finished so it hasn’t reached the paper recycle bin yet.

Write down what is wandering around my mind. There are multiple ideas, reminders, musings to put into some sort of order.

As I am writing this, I have seen the sky lighten as the sun rises. I must add that to my bucket list, “watch more sun rises”. It is a beautiful, peaceful way to start the day.

My mug of tea is finished, my mind feels a little less hectic, so I’ll head back to bed now for an hour or two and hopefully I will sleep.

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