Posted: 26/11/21

Sunset 1 November - Trish Green

I feel so lucky to have had this experience.  I didn’t know what to expect, I’m not a meditative person, not good at ‘being in the moment’ etc, and at first that was hard.  But sitting cross-legged in a box on top of Hull College seems to have prompted a feeling of calmness and tranquillity!  I love this city.  I’m so proud to be from Hull, to live and work in Hull.  I love the sky here and to watch it from such a height and to be alone and undisturbed was really quite profound.  I was quite surprised at the narrowness of the box, only the width of its windows, and for some reason I expected it to be painted white.  Loved the strip light, although I held my vigil with the light off, just wanted daylight in there with me.  I also thought it would be quiet in there, but you hear the sounds of the city and the weather – it was so windy.  One of my reasons for doing the vigil is to come to some agreement with myself around my fear of heights, which I feel variably to be both totally logical and illogical.  I started at the East end of the box, felt safer there ‘cos you can see some building below so not so far to fall!  BUT, I gradually worked my way up to the Western end and sat on my scarf touching the window – very pleased with myself about that!  The sky was beautiful, a crack in the grey that slowly zipped itself up to hide the sun, a band of pinky purple right round the city, the river bending its way around us all, keeping us in.  Bright white lights popped on across the water, letting us know others are out there.  Overall, this was a fantastic experience.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.