Surviving Is The Art Of Waking

How to survive.  Wake up; try to do this before dawn.  Kiss your wife on the head and whisper you love her.  Sit up.  Put on really good house shoes.  Get up.  Make good coffee.  Put it in a really great cup.  Go outside preferably in the wild or the wild you have created.  Sit down in a good chair.  Allow you being awake to create gratefulness.  Listen.  Identify all the sounds you hear.  Allow the earth to create a state of thankfulness.  Relax.  Read the best book you know made from the best materials you can afford and use a pen to record everything on the pages of the book that the book is giving you.  (Plan to give that book to a loved one.)  Talk or write to the greatest being you know or have ever heard of, just tell them what is going on with you.  BE HONEST!  BE GRATEFUL!  Layout your day consciously trying to help out.  Relax.  Be still.  Be quite.  Begin. 

Years ago I spent many a morning waking up
in this old cook tent.