It's 7:01 AM ⏰

How to find calm and less pain upon waking.

A favorite mural in my neighborhood in Philly, and an acknowledgement that little sparrows loom larger than life in our city.

It’s 7:01 AM. You’ve been lying in bed for 60 seconds now, your consciousness reconstructing itself into personhood, your anxiety building in both vague and specific ways. It’s uneasy. There’s an icy discomfort as catecholamines…