DAY 25: 4 Minutes & 10 Seconds of Gazing
I felt strange this morning. I missed the last six days of gazing due to a combination of cloudy weather, travel, a touch of oversleeping and finally what I interpreted to be a sun declared ultimatum that I must swear off of junk food or it was over between the Sun and me! Well I’ve […]
DAYS 19-23: Attempts to Gaze in Connecticut
I haven’t seen so much as a glimmer of the morning or evening sun in five days, and if the weather forecast in Fairfield CT holds true I won’t be seeing her tomorrow either. The last time I gazed I was standing in a converted above-ground subway station in New York City; later that same […]
DAY 18: 3 Minutes of Gazing – Manhattan
I woke up to a bright day in full swing and to the sounds of traffic roaring on this bustling Brooklyn morning. So seeing the sunrise was definitely out. Plan B was to watch the sun go down from The High Line, a decommissioned above ground subway track that has been converted into a beautiful, […]
DAY 17: 2 Minutes & 50 Seconds of Gazing – Sunset Park, Brooklyn NY
For a massive ball of fire that’s bigger than the planet it’s surprisingly hard to find a way to get a few minutes of a glimpse at it every day. Especially when I’m traveling. I am currently in NYC for a few days visiting some friends. I didn’t really think this all through because even […]
DAY 16: Only 40 Seconds of Gazing
Well I screwed this all up. I tried to gaze at sunrise but there was a thick dark grey helmet of fog like I’ve never seen before at the top of the mountain on my usual grassy mound. I think the clouds had gathered forces after a weather pattern from Hoboken read my blog and […]
DAY 15: 2 Minutes & 30 Seconds of Gazing
I woke up at 3:30 am, went to the yoga studio, laid out my yoga mat, straightened out my sheepskin mat cover just so, arranged my water bottle in reaching distance, took off my socks, cleared my throat to get ready for the chanting, and promptly fell asleep for the full two hours of it. […]
DAY 14: 2 Minutes & 20 Seconds of Gazing
I tried this morning to catch the sunrise again, but the clouds were there first, determined to distract from the show. The clouds are like that asshole in movie theaters who answers their cell phone and has an entire conversation during the best action scenes. Just like the clouds at sunrise, they ruin the entire […]
DAY 13: 2 Minutes & 10 Seconds of Gazing
I have been doing this thing where I am trying not to wear my sunglasses anymore. In The Earth Was Flat Dwinell mentions that he no longer had the need for sunglasses after a while of sungazing. I thought about the unyielding brightness of the sun at high noon and about how I could barely […]
DAY 12: 2 Minutes of Gazing Part II – Outsmarting Clouds
I reached another milestone! Two full minutes of gazing. I keep thinking that every time we reach another minute it’s going to be an “event gaze”, like if gazing was a TV show then each of the minute marks would be a season finale or the episode when Heather Locklear joins the cast, or something. […]
DAY 12: 2 Minutes of Gazing Part I – Clouds
I thought that doing my sun gazing experiment in Los Angeles would mean smooth sailing in terms of daily visibility; but relentless clouds over the last two days and some other shrouded mornings recently have made me realize the sun is playing hard to get. Nikki and I stood last night and gazed at brightly […]
