Meet Sweet Alex

Link: http://firefliesandbonfires.com

Sweet Alex is the progenitor of the morning project.

He begins our day with worship before the alter of our computer.  Much mutual smoozing goes on before he settles his capacious belly on my mouse-hand and arm and we go about exploring what has changed overnight. My friends know to expect many stories of Sweet Alex and also Claudette Colbert the regal Siamese who provides the ginger for our lives.

Mark van Doren's poem reminds me that mornings with no place to go are gifts  of retirement.  The poet Marian Campbell writes also of the experience I share with so many of my friends, that being waking early and just lying in bed enjoying morning peace.

My hope is this narrative may find use to others it may touch along the road.

In shameless self-promotion,  I encourage visitors and friends to follow the link above to learn of the larger endeavor to collect in one online venue a volume of my paper, mental and electronic scriibbling.