Morning Routines

There is a particular quality to the first hour of the day, before the world has fully arrived. The kettle. The notebook. The light that comes in low and long.

Morning routines are not about productivity. They are about the small rituals that make a person feel like themselves before the day asks them to be something else.

The French press takes four minutes. That is enough time to write three sentences. Three sentences, over a year, is a book.

Not every morning produces anything worth keeping. But every morning that begins with intention produces something worth having lived through.