a run of early mornings

2025 · 09

I've been waking early, which I didn't plan, and that's probably why it's held. Every January I decide to become a morning person and by February I've quietly dropped it, so I know not to make a thing of it. But the last couple of weeks I've been up before I need to be, light already coming, the flat dead quiet, and I like it.

I do almost nothing with it. Coffee, the notebook, sometimes a short walk to the park before it fills up, grass still wet, the heron in its usual spot pretending to be a stick. If I'd set myself jobs to do at six in the morning I'd have quit by now.

I'm not calling it a habit. The moment I do, it'll notice and stop.