A spring morning in 2018

I woke up sleepy and thought I would ask my friend John if we could just do half of our usual morning running loop. (I always think, when I wake up for a run and am still 75% asleep, that I could never make it for the full run I’d planned on – but I always do once I get moving.)

I walked out of my room in a fog of sleep and noticed that the green curtains in the living room of my Amman apartment had an orange tint behind them. I pulled them back. The sun had just risen, fiery orange and perfectly framed between the two buildings beyond my balcony.