Notes:
- Post title by: Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (Picador; March 31, 2022)
- Photo by DK @ Daybreak. 6:45 a.m. 70° F. September 13, 2022. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. See more photos from this morning here.
Why it was that the morning quietened so curiously this way?
September 13, 2022 by 23 Comments
A lovely September Day — tender —
September 10, 2022 by 28 Comments
Notes:
- Photos: DK @ Daybreak, Cove Island Park. 6:00-6:15 a.m. on September 10, 2022. More photos from a glorious morning here.
- Post Title: Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary (Mariner Books; March 31, 2003)
Sunday Morning
August 7, 2022 by 18 Comments
and I shall have some peace there,
for peace comes dropping slow
— Naomi Shihab Nye, from “The Words Under the Words,” Words Under the Words: Selected Poems.
Notes:
- Photos: Daybreak. 5:11 to 6:00 pm, August 7, 2022. 80° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this morning here (landscape) and here (birds).
- Poem via The Vale of Soul-Making
T.G.I.F. Now. And Now. And Now.
August 5, 2022 by 25 Comments
Stony silence as we cross the bridge into Manhattan [Cove Island Park] and the streets [paths] begin slipping past. Every moment of your life brings you to the moment you’re experiencing now. And now. And now. I’ve never have been on the streets [paths] this early [many times], predawn, and the driver [DK] agrees that it’s eerie and perfect.
— Jo Ann Beard, Festival Days (Little, Brown & Company, March 16, 2021) (DK-EDITED)
Photos: DK @ Daybreak. 5:04 & 5:15 am, August 5, 2022. 76° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. Other photos from this morning here (landscape) and here (swans).
Sunday Morning
July 3, 2022 by 18 Comments
George & Grace @ Daybreak. 5:35 a.m. July 3, 2022. 72° F. Cove Island Park, CT. More pictures from this morning’s walk here.
Sunday Morning (Images that stick)
June 26, 2022 by 17 Comments
Notes:
- Backstory on Human Sleeping on Bench: “Walking. With Moment that Sticks“.
- Geese swimming in a row. (“Ducks in a Row“)
- Last Photo Inspiration: “I want to believe that if humans really leaned into this impulse to mother one another, it would be stronger than the impulse to tear one another apart.” — Mary Laura Philpott, Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives (Atria Books, April 12, 2022)
- Photos: DK @ Daybreak. 4:40 to 5:07 am, June 26, 2022. 67° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.
Lightly Child, Lightly
June 16, 2022 by 14 Comments
The classical elements are earth, water, air and fire, and this old idea feels right at a sensory level. I start to think that a combination of two is primal and powerful: rain on soil, fire in the wind, sunlight on stone. A combination of three is poetry: the sea washing the moonlight into the cliff, a rainbow.
— Amy Liptrot, The Instant (Canongate Books, March 3, 2022)
Notes:
- Photo: DK @ Daybreak. ~5:00 am, June 12, 2022. 60° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. Other pictures from Sunday morning here.
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
Lightly Child, Lightly
June 9, 2022 by 23 Comments
I dream through a wordless, familiar place.
The small boat of the day sails into morning,
past the postman with his modest haul, the full trees
which sound like the sea, leaving my hands free
to remember. Moments of grace. Like this.
— Carol Ann Duffy, from Moments of Grace in “Mean Time” (Pan Macmillan; January 1, 2018)
Notes:
- Photo: DK @ Daybreak. Cove Island Park. June, 4, 2022. 5:34 a.m.
- Poem: Thank you Beth @ Alive on All Channels)
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
Sunday Morning
May 29, 2022 by 30 Comments
Lightly Child, Lightly
May 26, 2022 by 20 Comments
Notes:
- Video: DK, Cove Island Park, May 25, 2022 @ Twilight. 5:03 am. More photos from yesterday morning here.
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
Like the moon in the morning — all firmament, beautiful, about to vanish.
May 20, 2022 by 29 Comments
Notes:
- Post Title: “The way a deer emerges from a thicket is the opposite of a wound. Like the moon in the morning — all firmament, beautiful, about to vanish. Each morning I walk out my apartment & wonder what is going to become of me.” — Devin Kelly, “Deer on the Side of an American Highway,” published in drDOCTOR
- DK @ Daybreak. 4:58 am, May 20, 2022. 52° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this mornings walk here.
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
May 18, 2022 by 12 Comments
Notes:
- Photo: Susan Toyofuku: “This picture was taken in Liwa, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Nov. 2013. Liwa is part of the “Rub al Khali” or Empty Quarter, encompassing the southern third of the Arabian peninsula. It is a magical place of huge tangerine and cinnamon-colored dunes that stretch beyond the horizon in every direction. Liwa is one of the few deserts in the world where the sands “sing” when disturbed by the wind.“
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again.
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
May 11, 2022 by 20 Comments
Notes:
- Photo: 左卿侯 via Aberrant Beauty
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again.
Gökotta
May 7, 2022 by 30 Comments
Gökotta (n., Swed.)
“a dawn picnic to hear the first birdsong”; the act of rising in the early morning to watch the birds or to go outside to appreciate nature.
Notes:
- Photo: DK – (Wet) Baby Blue Jay. 6:50 a.m., May 7, 2022. 50° F & Rain
- Quote: Thank you The Hammock Papers
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
May 4, 2022 by 19 Comments
Notes:
- Photo: Wolfgang Hasselmann (via Unsplash)
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again.
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
April 27, 2022 by 24 Comments
Notes:
- Photo: Adria Berrocal Forcada @ Sahara Desert @ 6am on Dec 1, 2017 (via Unsplash)
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again.
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
April 18, 2022 by 26 Comments
Sunday Morning
April 3, 2022 by 21 Comments
DK @ Daybreak. 6:44 am, April 3, 2022. 38° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this morning here.
T.G.I.F: a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched
April 1, 2022 by 20 Comments
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Notes:
- Photo: DK @ Daybreak. 6:52 am, April 1, 2022. 54° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this morning here.
- Quote from Steve Layman
Without spring who knows what would happen. A lot of nothing, I suppose.
March 22, 2022 by 17 Comments
Notes:
- Grace (and George) building their nest. (Grace being named by my good friend LouAnn.)
- My Swan(s) @ Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. 6:57 a.m. yesterday morning. 42° F. Other photos from yesterday morning here. Backstories on swans here.
- Post Title: Mary Oliver, from “Late Spring,” Felicity: Poems (via Alive on All Channels)
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