Thursday, April 4, 2013

Day's Eye



"Day's eye" is Old  English for the daisy flower --- also a  birth flower of  April along with the sweet  pea. I can  see  the reason  for  the name. The daisy  is  a  flower with petals like  rays arranged  around a  bright yellow  disk -- its eye -- poised to receive the sun's rays. Incidentally,  the buds only open  at dawn as  if to herald a new day. A bunch speak of new beginnings.

Speaking of new beginnings, there comes a point when we find (like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz) that we are "not in Kansas anymore." That feeling of being in new territory, something alien to us, out of our comfort zones, hurled into the unknown. It is always an opportunity to make good once again...make good this time.