I am happy to greet each new day with hope and optimism.

You meet a day roughly the way you meet a person, and the first few minutes tend to set the terms.

Most of us hand those minutes away immediately. The phone is in hand before the feet are on the floor, and the day arrives already narrated by strangers with their own reasons.

There is a small window before that. Long enough to notice the light in the room and what the weather is doing, and to decide, weakly and without much evidence, that this one might go well.

Hope this early is not a prediction. It is what you bring to the introduction.