“In the dark”, one of my favorite songs by one of my sneaky favorite musicians from the 1980’s, Billy Squier.

In the dark, also when I prefer to wake up on work days, curious thing. Maybe it goes back to days as a kid when I’d be at my grandparents’ ranch and my grandpa and dad would wake me up to go deer hunting in the autumn mornings. I loved that time and came to understand some particular magic of being awake before dawn.

All these years later that early-morning time carries special powers I can’t quite explain easily, but is real and palpable for me.

Like right in this moment as a scribble down these words, the day ahead and good thoughts fill my head too, and a little mysterious understanding and confidence and belief in myself,

Not always this way, as I often feel uncertain and anxious and even a bit immobilized by Life and everything piling up, that sometimes is how it goes,

In the dark, to start the day,

So interesting,

In the end, either way, so GOOD.