The Wild, the Dark, and the Invitation

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I moved my sleep schedule on my iPhone back an entire hour shortly after the “fall back” time change which repositioned which hours we call daylight. Since time is a construct, there is no rule that means I have to keep doing things at the same number on the clock and moving everything an hour earlier lets me avoid that terrible jetlagged feeling I often get this time of year. 

It was mostly successful. I called it “following the light,” something I naturally do when backpacking anyway. Hours on the trail don’t matter as much as when the sun is coming up and when it’s going down. The numbers on the clock can help us track how much time until each of these events, but otherwise they are meaningless. 

Off the trail there are meetings and appointments and other things that insist that those little numbers on the clock do indeed mean something and must be observed. I don’t have power to change that, but I can change when I wake up and when I go to bed. 

Following the light helps me through t…