As I looked out the window this morning it was as if the sunflower were looking in at me. Moments like this make me forget the horrible things going on in the world all around us, if only for a few moments. It awakens me to the good and causes me to look to the beauty, the generosity, the kindness, the love and ultimately the hope. To look for the light and follow that, just as the sunflower. My tutor, my muse, my inspiration at this moment, my sunflower.
"Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven."
~James Montgomery