The name for this page came to me while I was driving. A lot of ideas come to me that way. I was en route from D to CS, and I saw a speed limit sign that posted 70 as the daytime speed, and 65 as the nighttime speed. As I was driving, the light was starting to fade from the edges of the horizon, leaving me hanging in the balance of night and day. I started thinking about whether this dusk I had driven into qualified as day or night, how I would persuade a cop that driving at 75mph was only 5 miles over the posted speed limit, not 10. Obviously, I prepare myself for run-ins with the highway authority. Which would he believe? Would the cop who pulled me over and asked for my “license and registration” consider it dark or night? Me as an adult or some kid on her way home? It’s an interesting thought… especially if you tend to speed.
I feel like I’m in a twilight stage of my life. Not twilight in the traditional sense, as the fade before the night closes in, but twilight in a reinvented meaning: the Twenty Something stage. An “in between”. It’s a curious place to be, walking the tightrope of maturity, where certain things are expected but not necessarily allowed. So here I am, dwelling in a state of ambiguity.
