We "sprang forward" yesterday, setting the clocks ahead an hour. As a consequence, it is darker for an hour more in the morning but lighter later at night.
The first impact was the disruption in the rhythm on Sunday. "Losing" an hour of sleep got the day off to a feeling of imbalance that never completely went away. I went to bed early in hopes of catching up, but slept fitfully and with lots of quite vivid and strange dreams.
Today the walk to work was pleasant - the robins were back - and there was a new chorus echoing through the neighborhood - the drumming of woodpeckers coming from all directions. When I left work, the shift - to a point about an hour earlier in the true day - was noticeable. The light was bright - not yet beginning to fade into evening.
Is this disjointed leap ahead in time worth it in the end? I'm not convinced. The days are getting longer and in a few weeks we would naturally end up with these longer evenings. I think I'd rather just let things evolve as the Earth comes around the sun, relatively tilting back toward the stream of energy that warms up the planet and brings on the spring.
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