05:05, mirror hour

The five of the hour repeats in the minutes: 05:05, a double mirror hour at the edge of dawn. The sky is beginning to change color but full light has not arrived, and that in-between moment frames the two fives on the clock.

Two fives make ten, and ten folds back to one, where counting starts. Before dawn that is less a message than a description: the day has not asked anything of you yet, so whatever you begin now costs nothing to begin. Small is fine. First moves usually are.