Dinacharya: The Ayurvedic Daily Routine That Makes September Survivable

Every year, in the last two weeks of August, a household quietly rebuilds itself. Bedtimes that drifted an hour later in July have to come back. Breakfast becomes a thing that happens at a time rather than whenever. Alarms return. And for about ten days, everyone is slightly worse at everything, short-tempered, foggy in the morning, wide awake at eleven at night wondering why sleep has stopped working. We tend to treat this as an unavoidable tax on the end of summer. Ayurveda would say it is the predictable cost of having abandoned a routine, and that the tradition has...