And don’t let others take advantage
I love taking a walk during the pre-dawn hours when the world is still half-asleep. I see houses and neighborhoods come alive. A light turns on here or there. As a man retrieves the morning paper, he sees me, nods, and waves. I smile. No words are exchanged. There is dew on the grass, and I can smell coffee brewing through an open window. A dog barks but not too loudly, almost conscious of the early moment. A truck rumbles by on a delivery run, and sometimes I hear a distant siren or the back-up tones of another truck pulling into a loading dock.
