january 22

one of the quickest ways to make yourself feel supernatural is to stay up until 5 o'clock in the morning. how many hours of sleep you may get after that, you have still bent the rules of your body, ignored some natural pattern. after that the trappings of your life become intensified, perhaps more charged with possibility or imagination, and potent. poetry and ritual also become more visible... the ceremony of a shower, the rustle of leaves on a gloomy day, the long walk to whereever you must go.