On Mornings

& what the day brings

from Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror (1975)

"The sun with all the planets it sustains and yet can ripen a bunch of grapes."

—Ursula Le Guin

I’ve recently become a huge fan of mornings.

The way the light pools out from under the darkness, delving, slowly, into the bright yet dewy morning sun of the emerging summer solstice is such a raw delight. Filled with a…