I had planned on sleeping in, I didn’t set the alarm, I hunkered down for the night. I woke up way too early, the lake beckoning me to visit. The sun started to glint on the horizon. I said no many times in my head but the pull of a sunrise forced me out of bed, pulling on many layers of clothes and grabbing my gear. I went down to the shoreline. It wasn’t what I really wanted, the large unsettling waves that only Lake Superior herself can produce but a relatively calm still morning with a wave that would come through every so often to create a backsplash into the sky. Sometimes you don’t get what you want but you do get what you need. A beautiful sunrise can soothe and heal the soul.