My daughter and I love watching BBC / PBS shows. Victoria is the most recent one we are watching. As I watched how people lived in the 1800s, I considered what it would be like to only have my life lighted by candles and sunlight. It would certainly make the dark part of the year different.
By 4:00 or so at night, flickering candlelight would be my only illumination. This reduces my scope of environment drastically. Right now, if it’s dark I flip a switch and illumination of my surroundings occurs. But what if I only had dripping smelly candles to light my way? What would it feel like to be surrounded by darkness? Would fear well? Would loneliness envelop?
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I think what the writer is doing is imagining her own modern and urban life - candle lit. I live on a remote farm at 1,000 feet in -
The rural life is never as ideal as it can be made out to be. I grew up on a farm and remember the difficulties year round. Wint
