Shiras Park at 7:45am

Sunrise 315 of 365

• Sunrise time: 7:45
• Azimuth: 115° ↑
• Did the sun rise: Yes
• Was the sun visible: Nope

Weather

Observed from nearest station 0.33 miles away

• Temperature: 20 ºF
• Felt like: 10 ºF
• Conditions: Mostly Cloudy
• Wind: 9 mph ↑
• Visibility: 10.0 mi
• Humidity: 80%

Exposure

• 17mm
• f/22.0
• 30 sec
• 50

Location

Shiras Park, Marquette, MI

46° 33' 15" N, -87° 22' 56" W

Musings | 248 words

People continually say “I could/would never do that,” referring getting up to watch each sunrise of the year.

Why? Why wouldn't you?

I've been plauged with this in the past. When I worked at [redacted] I couln't find anyone in the company who wanted to stay late and create a new project. All this talent and no execution. There were beautiful, wonderful, charming ideas. Coincidentally, that very same thing at [redacted] happened all the time, and they were executed. People created things for more than clients. Guess which one I loved and look back upon fondly?

Back to the subject…

One year, that’s it. That’s all this project is. There have already been 36 completed trips around the sun. I think I’ll come out a better person than I went in to this year. That's less than 3% of my life. Ok, let's just take since being 16. That's 5% of my life. It's incredibly insignificant.

I remember the same when I grave up drinking for a year. If it was for a religiuos reason that was “ok”, if it was because I had substance abuse issues, that was also “ok”. But simply as a choice? People only ever asked “Why? Why woudl you do that?”

Aside from the why, it's only a year. A single year, in any given life, is hopefully a pretty small commitment.