Dawnings
to care
By Nicholas Hooper
to care for the world
to care for others
this is what we’re born to
in the messy route of humanity
it gets so easily lost in a need
to appease the less kind
so pull back to the centre
the hub of life’s wheel
and look at what we’re doing
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About Dawnings:
“Every morning at around 5am I get up and go down to my studio. After a short meditation I write down whatever is in my head, giving myself fifteen minutes to do so. Then moving over to the piano (or a more portable instrument like my Ukulele when I'm away), I improvise and record a piece of music inspired by whatever words I just wrote. It is a great way of keeping both my writing and my composing going and I call these small creations Dawnings. They are mostly unedited, like sketches, so that they keep that fresh feeling of an early morning discovery.”
— Nick Hooper