The Sound of Morning

The best reason to take an early tee time has very little to do with golf.

For a little while, the world is quieter.

The phone hasn’t started buzzing.

The news hasn’t started shouting.

The day’s demands haven’t arrived yet.

It’s just birds.

Footsteps.

Fresh-cut grass.

A little room to think.

And it’s easy to wonder if that’s the thing we’re all quietly missing.

Not because life is too busy — but because we’ve forgotten how much clarity arrives in quiet places, and how rarely we let ourselves stay in one.

Maybe peace isn’t something you find.

Maybe it’s something you stop interrupting.