Are you a morning person? I pretty much am, which is to say I wake up hungry, filled with curiosity about the weather, eager to roll up the blinds. Mr. Chattering and I have a running disagreement over whether people who are not morning people are born that way and forever stuck needing coffee OR whether they are actually out of physical/spiritual alignment (Chattering Mind’s obnoxious argument).

Here’s a wonderful Beliefnet.com article on the spiritual importance of rising early. And here’s an article archived on Martha Stewart’s Body & Soul website with ideas on how to become a morning person. Missing is a tip an old friend once gave me: play Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” album at full volume at 6:30 a.m. every day. Gets the juices flowing.