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A quiet start to the morning.

A short letter, every morning at first light. It finds one small, ordinary thing, true on any morning including this one. It says that, then stops. Reading it takes a minute. I want it to wake the mind gently — a balm, so you can go into the day slowly.

I've been making a letter like this every morning for months, quietly. Now I'm doing it in the open, hoping one of them lands well for someone. I choose what each is about and set the voice; a computer writes the sentences, and I keep only the lines that hold up. They live here, free to read, and the older ones stay.

Before long it will come by email each morning, to anyone who wants it that way. Leave your address and I'll write to you when the first one goes out.

— Peter