Monday mornings are hard on all of us. We’ve lived the good life for two days and three nights. Then the alarm sounds, a jolting, Pavlovian reminder that it’s time to resume professional discipline, return to our posts, and get moving on the road to accomplishment.

Some Monday mornings, though, the pre-work ritual of dog walk, breakfast, coffee, shower, and second coffee are not enough to get us moving. Reinforcements are needed.

Enter Benjamin:

(Proud, former-rocker father moments: The guitar-above-the-head maneuver, and the on-beat bow to close out the performance.)

How can we not be wide awake and ready for the week after some air guitar first thing Monday morning?