Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to go outside for the sunset. Getting outside
Speaker 1: in the evening is a great way to make any
Speaker 1: evening feel more memorable, and seeing a sunset is an
Speaker 1: easy way to add more awe into everyday life. This
Speaker 1: is free entertainment, so to speak, that nature provides on
Speaker 1: the regular, so we may as well take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: Longtime listeners know that I am a big fan of
Speaker 1: what in my family we call toad time. That is
Speaker 1: time outside after dinner. If the double time in that
Speaker 1: acronym bothers, you call it together outside after dinner time.
Speaker 1: This is hard to pull off in winter, but after
Speaker 1: the March time change, it's light outside until at least
Speaker 1: seven pm, and soon much later the weather starts getting nicer.
Speaker 1: By the end of March and into April, going outside
Speaker 1: at night becomes more appealing. Nature also puts on a
Speaker 1: spectacular show twice a day with the sunrise and sunset.
Speaker 1: I am often up getting kids ready and see the
Speaker 1: sunrise out my kitchen window, but in the rush of
Speaker 1: the morning routine it's a bit more challenging to get
Speaker 1: out there and savor it. In the evening, though there's
Speaker 1: often a little bit less going on, there's less rushing,
Speaker 1: a lot of people aren't doing that much, say seven
Speaker 1: thirty p m. Committing to going outside to see the
Speaker 1: sunset will both nunte you to get some fresh air
Speaker 1: and probably introduce some spectacular beauty into an evening that
Speaker 1: might not have had so much of it otherwise. Ideally,
Speaker 1: this could become a regular thing. There is a sunset
Speaker 1: every day, and when it is a regular thing, than
Speaker 1: the benefits start to stack up. To know when the
Speaker 1: sunset is you have to look at a time or
Speaker 1: weather app for your area. Then you have to think
Speaker 1: about your evening, what is going on around the time
Speaker 1: that the sun is setting. That question will nudge you
Speaker 1: to think through your evening. If we finish dinner at seven,
Speaker 1: we could go play outside in the backyard for thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: right and then we could watch the sunset. Or maybe
Speaker 1: we'll be getting out of swim practice at seven fifteen
Speaker 1: and the sun is setting at seven twenty, so maybe
Speaker 1: we can drive two minutes away to a park with
Speaker 1: a lot of open space so we can see the
Speaker 1: sun going down. That will make for a little adventure,
Speaker 1: which right there could make an evening more memorable. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously this isn't always going to work. Some days are
Speaker 1: stormy and there isn't much of a show. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: are doing other wonderful things that preclude watching the sunset.
Speaker 1: If you are listening to an orchestra perform from let's
Speaker 1: say seven to eight thirty pm, you will probably emerge
Speaker 1: to darkness, and that is okay. I know that during
Speaker 1: certain windows of the year, perhaps young kids' bedtimes will
Speaker 1: exactly correlate with the sunset, and that is what it is.
Speaker 1: But as I study people's evenings, I know that many
Speaker 1: people do not use evenings particularly well. We don't have
Speaker 1: much energy. It's hard to be intentional. Choosing to go
Speaker 1: outside to see the sunset is a very low energy
Speaker 1: intention that it would not be hard to add into life.
Speaker 1: But when you see these spectacular oranges and pinks on
Speaker 1: the clouds and feel the spring breeze on your face,
Speaker 1: the payoff is going to be pretty good. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before breakfast.
Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
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