Morning Self-Directions

Morning Thoughts #18

Oh, holy morning before sunrise! How the soul breathes crisp air best! City of Boston, you can turn me into a veritable Puritan at this hour. Have you perhaps not forgotten your old tricks? And the birds aren't just singing, they're imparting many secrets of life! And coffee before sunrise is the perfect sneak preview that gives nothing away while building skyscrapers of anticipation! Old city, even your early traffic evokes thoughts of a pilgrimage in me.

Hour of inspiration! I am inspired by the joggers out at this dark hour. I see them in motion and imagine the beginning of their day's motion, that even earlier waking hour and their saying "yes" to the first challenge of the day. It is far from warm outside, but how they seem to possess a purpose with an engine that warms itself! This is healthy living: waking up and saying "yes" to the day's first challenge and being willing to create such early challenges altogether!

This is the time of the self-directed! Happy is the person who feels at home among such souls! Original sin—isn't that just another name for all of the sunrises we have slept through? If so, let me give my confession to the dog-walkers already out...and, for good measure, to their dogs too!