08:08, mirror hour

08:08 doubles the eight in the middle of the morning routine. A double mirror hour between breakfast and the first commitments of the day, when the body is moving but the pace has not fully picked up yet.

The face shows two eights and the arithmetic gives seven: eight plus eight is sixteen, one and six. Seven is the inward one, the digit that closes something without telling anybody. Read over the breakfast plates, it suggests the part of your mind that has been quietly finished with something for a while.