What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?
Watching. Praying. Quietly sipping coffee. Traveling trains of thought through the wee hours I have to myself because once the sun rises, we walk — rain or shine, ice storm or heat wave — we walk.
She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Proverbs 31:15
Meet Beauty and Babe, my mother/daughter blue bully pits. We moved from the middle of nowhere — Pittsburg, Texas — to downtown Dallas in February 2020, exactly one month before COVID-19 lockdown. It was surreal having Dallas to ourselves but it gave my grrlz a chance to get used to the city slowly.
And remembering Pittsburg, I’m reminded of the amazing day that I spent floating in the water between earth and sky in Lake Cypress Springs watching the 2017 total solar eclipse. It’s an amazing moment that I will always treasure. In one week, Dallas will have front row seats to April 8th’s total solar eclipse. I’ve read totality is out of this world so I’m very excited to experience this memory in the making.
In between dog walks, of course.
Poet Cea 