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Day 1: Daybreak

Today, and actually yesterday if I'm being completely honest, I am grateful for daybreak.  Yesterday I happened to be caught by day breaking and today I experienced it.  (The picture was taken yesterday, today I was electronics free.) That moment when the black of the night sky is touched with a hint of deep blue.  And over the course of about a half hour the deep blue reaches up and erases the black and gives way to the bright blue of a fully risen sunny day.  Have you ever just sat and watched it happen?  (Yes it's early but worth it.)  The world, at least my immediate one, is quiet.  Holding its breath in anticipation of what the day may bring.  The slight breeze is stirring the air around me and prompting the trees to clap their hands, issuing an applause for the start of new day and new mercies.  (Darn it all if I can't take credit for that tree imagery, someone else brought it to me.)  At daybreak the quiet is soothing and g...