Stretch until you feel the difference. With both hands, grab hold of a chair arm and guide yourself to the left. Remember to breathe, drawing in and letting go. Now to the right. Don’t stop. Do it again, and again, and again, until you feel the release. Listen to this early morning— the eastern breeze is playing the chimes on your front porch, a pair of doves (for they tend to be in pairs) from the neighbor’s yard coo-coo-coos their sense of being alive, a car in the distance signals the start of another day of commerce. Give advantage to this time when once again you are beginning. Stretch. Breathe. Release.