Dawnings
A kind heart
By Nicholas Hooper
Urgent, says the brain
Urgent, urgent, urgent
Now, now, now!
But now, says the heart
Now is breath
Now is stillness
Now is being present to what is
You can run the hamster-wheel
that the world of money offers
or you can step off, look around
and realise that now is what is
So shun the urgent oughts
that generate from your brain like flies from a stagnant pond
and breathe the air, feel the earth
and be thankful for a kind heart
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About Dawnings:
“Every morning at around 5am I get up and go down to my studio. After a short meditation I write down whatever is in my head, giving myself fifteen minutes to do so. Then moving over to the piano (or a more portable instrument like my Ukulele when I'm away), I improvise and record a piece of music inspired by whatever words I just wrote. It is a great way of keeping both my writing and my composing going and I call these small creations Dawnings. They are mostly unedited, like sketches, so that they keep that fresh feeling of an early morning discovery.”
— Nick Hooper