There’s always solace to be found on the porch in the wee hours of the morning when the long dark has come and the humans have vanished behind their glowing windows, for this is the time of stillness and wind and starlight when I can fall backwards into the vastness of every sense and become absorbed by all that is not me. It was a surprisingly busy day today and made me remember that you end up paying for any vacation or long weekend on both ends.