Roomin' House Blues

It is the 4th day of Lent, the first Sunday in Lent.  Lenctentid  (spring-tide) in the Anglo-Saxon Old English was the name of March, because the first signs of spring came forth, and the days grew longer.   The fast period from Ash Wednesday up to Easter was therefore: L encten-fœsten.   For the ancient Anglo Saxon's time was measured in seasons, by the sun, the weather, the moon.  Noon was whenever the sun was highest where you lived.  The regulation of lives by the clock, which in the modern sense did not yet exist, was unimaginable.   Outside, while still the same grey, luke-cold, rain that is the curse of Seattle's "mild" climate, shoots are greening up and buds are breaking open. My winter blues is waning, although my rooming house and hard times killing floor blues still hums along.  It is also the first day of daylight savings time, a modern artificiality that plays havoc with our health, through sleep deprivation, our...