Priming the Pump

I sit here as I do on many work-at-home mornings. The top half of the plantation shutters are open to the new day. It’s still early. There are no colors yet, just dark shapes silhouetted against the light. Soon I will leave the keyboard and venture out. It used to be my morning habit, up and out before the day had any cobwebs on it. But now I write first. It’s the only way sometimes. 

And sometimes it works, the words pour out in a torrent. From the feel of the keys beneath my fingers, this will not be one of those days. But no matter. I write in all internal weathers; I prime the pump. And, on this day, which feels so much like a first day, a new year, I will prime it some more.