Dan the man

Spend time with myself. Every morning I wake up around 4:00-4:30 am, just me and the quiet I splash cold water on my face to get the sleep out of my eyes, I do some stretching and sometimes I hang upside down on my inversion table, that really gets the blood flowing to the brain. Once I’m fully awake I start coffee and see what the weather is like if it’s nice enough I sit outside and have coffee, the sky is still black the only noise is the creek in the front of the house. I look around at nothing but trees and forest the closest neighbor has their outside lights on mine went off hours ago so it’s dark, very dark this is my time. No TV no internet no cellphone just me and the world around me. Daybreak is about 5:30 the sky begins to brighten nature begins to awaken. First the birds start singing their morning songs the morning breeze moves through the leaves of the trees the sky gets brighter. The first of the three people who go to work drive by 10:00 minutes later the second and 30 minutes after them the third. I don’t know them they live in the same neighborhood as us, but we’re in the mountains and close neighbors are far away and I believe we all live here for the same reason, to get away from people, from the grind from the world up here it just us and nature.