Dawnings
Even just a little
By Nicholas Hooper
Even just a little thing
A small thing
A quiet thing
Can lead to the biggest, the greatest connection with our world.
A bluetit bobs on the feeder
A fly dances in the sun
A leaf brushes your face
And there you are, caught in nature, right in the middle of the biggest thing.
Thank you for the dark
Thank you for the light
Thank you for the rest
Thank you for the work
I’m so grateful that I looked and stopped and saw it, the most perfectly little thing.
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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