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the daily ambush where your dreams get evicted and reality clocks in.
means The early part of the day, from dawn until noon, when the sun comes up and the world starts moving again.
from From Old English 'morgen,' the dawn, which by the Middle English period had grown a '-ing' ending — built on the same pattern as 'evening' from 'even.' It's deeply rooted in Germanic soil: a cousin of German 'Morgen' and Dutch 'morgen,' all reaching back toward a sense of the day's first glimmer. Worth noting it's an accidental near-twin of 'mourning,' which comes from an entirely unrelated word for grief — the resemblance is pure coincidence, however fitting it feels before coffee.
- cortisol spike
- hormone surge peaks within 30 minutes of waking
- shortest shadows
- sunrise casts the longest you'll see all day
- taller then
- spine decompresses overnight, adding nearly an inch
- word roots
- shares ancestry with 'tomorrow' and 'morrow'
morning star — venus, the brightest object in the predawn sky, visible from earth before sunrise
good morning vietnam — 1987 film starring robin williams about a dj during the vietnam war
morning glory pool — yellowstone's largest hot spring at 188 feet deep, famous for its changing colors
morning wood — nocturnal penile tumescence, a physiological phenomenon occurring in males during sleep