A tweak to the Morning: Hodie nunc.

Correggio, "Four Saints"

The idea is to defer the internet, headlines-checking until after the morning prayer.  I could've seen this coming, but there you have it.

The coffee in the morning is taken physically standing-up.  I can check a quick headline on the phone while drinking it.  But no laptop and no sitting down.

If I'm doing well, this morning I was in the kitchen at 5:01 AM (good), then I'm starting Matins at 5:15 AM.  I'll then go right into Lauds, as usual.  Then right into the half-hour of mental prayer followed by Prime.

This is what I tried this morning and I finished prime right at 7:00 AM.  And, voila, 30 minutes until I've got to get in the car to go to school.

These first posts, then will be published right at about 7:30 AM, I'm thinking.

Also, in case you're wondering if yesterday I wrote any thank you notes—even a single one—the answer is no.

And lastly, if you're also wondering whether the time indicated below corresponds to the time I closed my laptop, got up out of my seat and left to go to school after having made it happen this morning, the answer is
yes.