🌿 A poem a day keeps the blues away…
WHY I WAKE EARLY
🌻 Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who make the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and crotchety–
best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light–
good morning, good morning, good morning.
Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness. 🌻
— Mary Oliver
(published in “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”)
🪴 I haven’t posted a poem for a few weeks now. Life has been life, I guess, with its usual ebbs and flows. As I finally sat down to share with you a poem, I picked Mary Oliver’s book and it opened on page 171, revealing WHY I WAKE EARLY.
🪴 I think any analysis of Oliver’s words would defeat the whole purpose of this simple but powerful poem. It’s not just an ode to the sun, but an ode to our planet and the beauty that surrounds us. And it’s meant to be experienced rather than analysed.
🎂 I find it interesting that this is the poem that revealed itself to me today (Friday 08 May), the same day we celebrate Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday: someone who has dedicated his life to sharing the wonders of our beautiful planet with millions of viewers in a most iconic way.
📌 So, instead of a question, I invite you to wake up early tomorrow and experience the wonder that is “morning” through all your senses.
🎂 Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough 🎂
🦋 Happy Friday everyone! 🦋
🌹 And Happy Mother’s day (on Sunday)! 🌹
With love,
Dina 🫶🏽
Resources:
- This week’s song is What A Wonderful World, cover by Sir David Attenborough—an ode to our planet
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