Exploring a Kiawah Morning
By Frances Boyd
Before every morning, there is a“ dawn”— the brief time that is neither day nor darkness, between the night and the sunrise. While the word dawn is an Old English word, all ancient cultures had a goddess of dawn, although the names differed. In Greek and Roman mythology, the goddess of the dawn was Aurora. And why not honor the dawn, a time before a new day begins, a subtle prelude to the rising sun, a symbol of hope breaking through the darkness?
A fortunate group of people on Kiawah witness the dawn on a regular basis, either because they want to get up early to walk, ride, or run on the beach, or they work on the golf courses and must start the day early to make the most of the sunlight before the golfers tee off. In addition, from May through August, turtle
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