by Linda Joyce

Created on: July 18, 2009

There's nothing like getting up early on a morning when you don't have to rush around to get ready for work.

You roll out of bed in that time period between the grainy gray of a 1940s B movie and dawn, with the surrounding silence making you feel as though you're the world's only inhabitant. Opening the door to the world outside, not a sound meets your ear; the birds are still sleeping.

Early morning is a great time to putter or to write, as I'm doing now. The stillness is inviting. Your thoughts don't have to compete with the TV, radio, sounds of conversation or laughter. It's delicious. You wonder why you don't do this all the time, then you remember, you do do it all the time, but most of the time it's because you have to get up and go to that place where you make your living, not the place you want to be, where your heart is.

I wonder how many writers there are worldwide who would give their eye teeth to be able to do this early rising every day but for their own purpose, not to serve a master or company that means little to them. To be able to take their laptop or pad of paper and pen outside with a cup of coffee and listen to the silence as they dream up their next article or fiction piece.

But, unfortunately, we live in the real world, where there are mouths to feed and bills to pay. It is the extremely lucky writer who finds himself or herself in that position, the position of not having to answer to a boss or punch a time clock. Oh, that we could all dwell in that heaven!

So for those of us who can't eke out a living by our writing alone, we can still look forward to those days, here and there, where we, for some incomprehensible reason, wake up extra early before the rest of the world is awake and claim that time for ourselves, be it for writing, thinking, or just smelling the roses. We all deserve a morning like that every once in awhile.

We need to remember to savor that early morning bliss, particularly on those days when we are chained to our nine to five (or worse) schedule where we walk through our day like the automatons we are, performing tasks that we have to that mean nothing to us but a paycheck.

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