Rhythm and Tenor

April 26.

This morning I woke up around 4 a.m. 

At this hour of the morning, birds do not sing.

There’s a stillness that comes of the night. There is more stillness in it than the day; and in this can be profit. One can always learn from a deeper stillness; it calls the soul in a way that the affairs of the day do not. In abbeys, it used to be a common pra…