It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.
It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.
When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other.
There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
Darkness is dawn not yet born.
Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.
The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day," while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe.
Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .
It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.
It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.
Dawn comes before sleep does.
I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
