Do you ever wake in the darkness before dawn and lie in bed, just thinking? It’s in those moments that thoughts, both good and bad, come creeping. Things that we suppress during the day find this is a good time to keep us awake.
Maybe it’s then that we are at our creative best. Francis Scott Key, a young lawyer who was held a prisoner on a British ship more than 200 years ago, anxiously scanned the horizon in those hours and penned the opening line of our National Anthem. “O, say, can you see by the dawn’s early light…”
A few years back, his inspiration was my inspiration as I wrote a tongue-in-cheek children’s story, Star Spangled Cat.
I wonder how many decisions have been made in those wakeful, early morning hours? How many stories and songs have been written or conclusions reached?
With daylight, solitary thoughts vanish like dew under sunlight. The challenge is to be the master of our thinking, even in those early hours, just before sunrise.
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Hard to always remember stuff a half-awake mind thinks up. Also, it’s too much of a bother to get up then and write any of it before it’s forgotten!
Yes, it sure is! Thanks for writing, Morgan.