Sunrises

With roughly one trillion, six hundred forty-three billion, six hundred twenty-five million reps, the sunrise is one of the most predictable of occurrences. If you're looking to learn from a reliable source, start here.

In most origin stories, nothing is set in motion until light is present. We're given the same formula over and over again:

Darkness + Light = Creation.

Something magical happens the very moment chaos meets order, when opposites are united.

Threshold moments unite opposites. They are liminal spaces that orient us to a new way of being.

What was no longer is, and what will be is yet to exist.

You can tell if you're in a threshold moment if the way you've done things your whole life is no longer producing the same results.

At sunrise, we observe the transitions: Darkness to light. Cold to warmth. Past to future. Monochrome to color. Asleep to awake. Rest to work.

Sunrises remind me of these things: Light comes after darkness. Light shows up in the same place. Light awakens. Light reorients.

Disorientation is important and necessary; not something to be avoided at all costs.

Boys avoid disorientation. Men navigate disorientation, even choose it from time to time. -----