Dawnings
Deserve
By Nicholas Hooper
A tricky word, deserve.
Like the little boy who didn’t deserve an ice cream because he was naughty.
Or the poor homeless man on the street who didn’t deserve such bad luck.
Perhaps we deserve to have global warming because we haven’t taken care of our planet.
But then the woman in a war torn country didn’t deserve all that suffering.
It’s a cold word, really because it doesn’t tell you anything of how things happen.
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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