It’s about 6am and I’m back home after Darkness into Light. Despite having to get up at half past three in the morning, it was a very enjoyable event: a large crowd of at least a thousand, and a lovely morning without a cloud in the sky, not particularly warm, but an acceptable 8°C, and made all the more atmospheric by the mist, especially over the grounds of Carton House (the entrance to which we passed en route) and the birdsong of the dawn chorus.
The walk itself is about 5km, but I had to walk about 2km from home to get to the start at Maynooth GAA and about 2km home from there afterwards, so it was a good bit of exercise. More importantly, I raised €312.28 for Pieta. Thank you to everyone who contributed! The fundraiser will stay open until the end of June if you’d like to donate you still can!
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll go back to bed for a couple of hours…
P.S. Darkness into Light is a national event, as you can read here.
In the Dark 