In spring the birds start singing before sunrise whether you’re awake to hear it or not. Catch it once.

The world runs a show every morning with no audience required. Beauty is not staged for you; it happens on its own schedule, and you either overlap with it or you do not. Most of what you miss is not hidden, only earlier than you are.

Pick one morning this week, set an alarm twenty minutes before you normally get up, and go stand outside. Leave the phone inside. You may hear nothing remarkable. The point is finding out what that hour actually sounds like.