Wake up late because your white noise machine drowned out your alarm. Have your new alarm be your husband of 40 years waking you by rubbing your feet. Stumble out of bed, throw on your clothes from yesterday, including your late father-in-law's delicious flannel shirt. Reheat yesterday's coffee in your second favorite mug because you […]
Reposting this after a dear friend asked me to reach back into the archives for it! **************** I wonder if any of you have had this experience … Let me try to describe it to you, as it all happens in my own head: I wake up in the morning, say at 6:45. I kind […]
I have been immersing myself in Irish poet Padraig O'Tuama's gentle prayer book, "Being Here: Prayers for Curiosity, Justice and Love" each morning. It is gorgeous, spare and thought-provoking in the best ways. Here is the opening prayer I read each morning: Turning to the day and to each other we open ourselves to the […]
There are times when Alice At Dawn wakes well before dawn. This morning was one of those times. Hello, four AM! It was dark and quiet in our bedroom, but my soul was restless. I tried unsuccessfully to grab a few more hours of sleep, tossing and turning. After a bit, I sensed the familiar […]
I start most days sitting in silence. Often, because of the drive-drive-drive culture we live in, this feels like wasted time. Sometimes it is, mostly because I fail to put my phone down and I end up frittering the time away. Distracted, never settled, jumping at every noise my phone makes. Those times make my […]
Wake up and roll out of bed … Hug the husband, Start the coffee, Make the bed, Water the garden, Empty the dishwasher, Take out the trash, Scrabble together some lunch. Morning chores … mundane, monotonous; the ordinary stuff of our ordinary days. Necessary jobs using up (wasting?) our precious time. The boring by-products of […]
