Midnight

The voice of the romantic midnight harkens; its calm tones echo through the day with the help of words. Is midnight romantic?I have been thinking about moments between: the transitions from one state to another. Yesterday, as I left the cafe from which I had purchased a coffee, I noticed how the sounds of the cafe receded into the background with every step I took, as the sounds of Nature and all that was around in my new environment took over. The echoes of new orders – lattes; morning fuels – receded as I admired the trees and the stone and the world.I thought about the between moments when I woke up this morning and spent the first twenty minutes of the day lying in bed, enjoying the cool surface of the covers and the warmth of being under them. In that time, I had a few moments where all that was on my mind was waking up – transitioning from being in the state where I’d like an extra hour in bed to the one where I was up and saying good morning to the world; a moment as…