Breathe.

I get up early. Very early. In the 4's or 5's usually. 

It's the quietest time of day when I can still hear and feel the children sleeping and there is nothing in the world that lies on my shoulders except the calm around me.

I light candles, make my expresso and now am starting to pull out the watercolors to paint simple things at that hour. "Breathe" was the word of the morning.