Week 3: Saturday Sunset

It had been a long week, and I was very ready to be home, to actually spend the evening in my apartment, and to not have to wake up at any particular time tomorrow. It had been a good week, yes, and it’s nice to no longer be in the insanity of the “beginning” of the year, but into more of a rhythm, and it was very productive, but it was exhausting. I do appreciate that on this campus, I do get time outside between classes, I can have meetings outside, or even just go read outside my office. But at the end of the day, it’s a lot of time inside for rehearsals, classes, and just working. So I treasure any outside time I get. In particular, there’s something so magical and beautiful to be about a sunset. I’m basically always in rehearsal when that’s happening— it’s kinda light out when I go to rehearsal (maybe not bright, but I can see), and then by the time I walk home it’s fully dark. So to get to be walking home during sunset was so wonderful. I was walking home, listening to some music, grateful but exhausted, and I happened to turn around and the sunset took my breath away. It was basically dark, but seeing that last bit of orange and purple peek through the trees near the horizon was sort of a beautiful metaphor for the end of the week, saying “goodnight” to this week’s installment of craziness. The sky wasn’t quite dark yet, it was the beautiful slate blue on an incredibly spectrum, getting darker and darker as I looked higher and higher, which made for pretty stunning silhouettes of the trees. And then the tiny crescent moon off in the distance made it look more like a postcard than real life. Natural light is just so wonderful, and being stuck inside all day, I become  that much more appreciative of that beauty. Seeing how the sunlight was waning and warping into glorious colors, but still lighting up the sky enough for a stark silhouette (an image I really love) made for a perfect end to the week.