The Long Dark Night
September 23, 2006 by kate baggott
Filed under Baby Care
In Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery, one of the books I read in childhood, the main character calls three in the morning “the white hour” when insomnia strikes with creative impulses that must be expressed. Emily’s white hours were not unique. Throughout literature and philosophy, the small hours of the morning are rife with sleeplessness and internal dialogue over questions about the nature of human experience.
These days I, too, find myself making a deep query of my soul and the universe when I should be resting in preparation for the next day’s work.
