Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light

"Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light."
-Joyce Carol Oates

I had the luck to hear this amazing woman, writer, poet, journalist speak yesterday.
Very powerful. I guess what she left with me is that it is so important to take times to ourselves
to do the things we love- and find that time alone.
She talked about how Emily Dickinson would write thoughts that came to her, mere fragmnets,
on receipts or scraps of paper throughout the day. She would be busy cooking or cleaning- taking
care of her family and loved ones. At the end of the day she would escape to her room and
as the door shuts she would excalim she had found freedom. It was there that she would
pull out the scraps and arrange them on the table to transform them into beautiful poetry.

We have the ability to make any change we want, small or large, through the mere shutting of a door, the extinguishment of a light, or perhaps like the night englufing the desert- all at once.