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Carrying the Sun Inside

Is it only with our eyes that we perceive light? Does it not have a taste, a smell, a sound, a pressure on the skin? Why are we so affected by it? I write this on the shortest day of the year here in the Northern hemisphere. The sun is up today from 7:45 a.m. to 4:25 p.m. At least that's the theory. It's after 8:00 a.m. now, and there has been no sunrise - just a shift from dark gray to less dark gray. Alaskans and others tell me that farther [...]