New Every Morning
My grandma was a morning person. She loved being up at the crack of a new day, smiling with coffee in hand. Typically a person doesn't know the morning routines of others all that well, but when you spend the night with your grandma more times than you can count, you learn her habits well. These were never more interesting than when we would spend an annual family vacation together at a beach house. She would be sure to sneak out onto the upper deck and enjoy all the quiet of creation before the loud awakened. One of these vacation days she said, "You should have seen the sunrise this morning! Wow!" It peeked my curiosity and I asked what time the sun had come up. It was a couple hours before my preteen self would dream of getting out of bed, especially in summer, on vacation, but thankfully, after she realized I'd not watched a sunrise over the ocean before, she talked me into it. I'm forever grateful that she did. The next morning, she nugged me awake, a
