I greet each day with gratitude, hope, and positivity.

A guest can tell within four seconds how welcome they are. The pause before the door opens. Whether the hall light was already on. Whether anybody stood up.

Days arrive as visitors too, and most of them are met by a hand groping for a phone in the dark. Not hostile, exactly. Just nobody coming to the door. Try standing up to meet one — ten minutes before the world starts, a hot drink, the curtains open, one thing named out loud that you are glad about. It changes the register of everything that follows.