1.   Art huddles over a closely guarded plastic container filled with camera equipment, adjusting straps and setting meters in a hallowed morning ritual.

2.   - As a smiling sun embraced them and songbirds voiced notes of joy, they began the morning ritual in preparation for the magical season that awaits.

3.   But part of her morning ritual involves flirting with her brother.

4.   Coaxing dead car batteries back to life with jumper cables was part of the daily morning ritual.

5.   He declined to state his own opinion but said some teachers are uncomfortable with making the pledge part of a morning ritual.

6.   He worried that age would erode his memory and this early- morning ritual became his daily antidote.

7.   His morning ritual was reading the newspaper and drinking coffee.

8.   I waited for my hug and kiss, our unfailing morning ritual.

9.   It is a morning ritual, like prayer at a parochial school.

10.   It was enough to prompt me to temporarily suspend my morning ritual of pulling the covers tightly over my head and beseeching the world to go ahead without me.