{"id":2895,"date":"2010-10-26T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/fall-alignment\/"},"modified":"2015-02-13T15:28:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:28:25","slug":"fall-alignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/fall-alignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Alignment &#8211; My Private Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Start of Flickr Badge --><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\/*\nImages are wrapped in divs classed \"flickr_badge_image\" with ids \"flickr_badge_imageX\" where \"X\" is an integer specifying ordinal position. 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I see it coming, even months ahead. As the day nears, I watch each morning \u2013 how soon? This morning, I first woke at 6am. I wanted to get up then. Lucky made me a morning person, against all odds, but cold, like the grave, is stronger than either of us. I looked at the clock again at 7:46am. When 7:47am clicked over, I got up and stepped out into the hall at the perfect moment, the moment of alignment.<\/p>\n<p> How many times a day do we fail to see these moments when light strikes a mundane spot, turning it into an altar? I observe this special moment each fall, a week before Halloween, and again, each spring, about a week after Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Nature\u2019s part in this display exceeds the other parts, but a sequence of steps brought this together. The house built with a door facing east, like half the houses on the block. The niche for a telephone and a laughably thin phone book. The door, added later, with a narrow window at just the right height, just the right shape. The glass pane with two blue spots, a gift from a bridesmaid, added years later to cover that narrow window. The katchina which largely replaced the chaotic clutter I contribute, the little treasures I handle daily and the older stuff I can\u2019t let go of. All made sacred by 30 seconds of light twice a year. I\u2019m grateful to bear witness.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time <ins>(in 2009)<\/ins>, the circle is notched in the upper-left by one of the bars on our new security door, the latest addition to the layers. The gap marks the inevitability of change and loss.<\/p>\n<p>See the collection of photos grow twice a year: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/niche\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/niche\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/niche\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><ins>Updated 10\/29\/09:<\/ins> See the change 4 days later: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/4055208123\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/4055208123\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><ins>First published 10\/25\/09. Updated 10\/26\/10.<\/ins> On 10\/26\/10, I took the first photos at 7:47am &#8212; true story. Seems to be the magic moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happens every fall, this week, probably this day. I see it coming, even months ahead. As the day nears, I watch each morning \u2013 how soon? This morning, I first woke at 6am. I wanted to get up then. Lucky made me a morning person, against all odds, but cold, like the grave, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/fall-alignment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fall Alignment &#8211; My Private Solstice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,7,13],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26","category-photos","category-the-atheists-pulpit","tag-niche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7261,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions\/7261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}