"Dusk"
I like it so much better than "twilight," partly because Stephanie Meyer has completely ruined that word for an entire generation, and partly because dusk seems to convey perfectly the soft, velvety charm of the time that doesn't belong to the day or the night. The in-between hour of shadows and birds singing and crickets chirping, of fog creeping over the pasture and cows coming home. (Except that we don't have cows to come home in the dusk, but whatever.)
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Amen to that! And why did Stephanie (we're on a first name basis, you see) have to go ruin such a lovely word?
Thank goodness for dusk, I suppose.
I wike it better too.
it's an Anne Shirley kind of word :)
although I do love the word dusk, I much prefer its elder cousin, 'gloaming'
that was Mama up there, with the anonymous comment. what is it about my family that makes them want to post anonymous comments??
I seriously love that word. It's pretty.
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What about 'dawn...'?
The promise of a new day, the hope of things to come, the quiet before the awakening of all things, the call to kneel in private adoration of our creator in our secret place, the anticipation of desires to be accomplished on this day the Lord has bountifully given, the first rays of sunlight 'like the life of the righteous'... oh, how I love dawn..Heaven will forever be dawn. Death is the sunset we have to go through to get to blessed dawn.
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