And so I rose on the morning after Election 2004--the election that I firmly believed would be the most important of my lifetime--hope warring with dread in the core of my being, looked out the window at the new day and contemplated…
I decided I would let the dawn be the omen. If we had a spectacular
sunrise, no matter who won, things were going to be all right. A rainy, drizzly,
weeping dawn would foretell of dire consequences for our nation. Funny thing…I
knew the forecast was for sun today…knew the rain had stopped and the clouds had
scuttled away before we went to bed last night. I think I was creating a
scenario in my mind where my "good omen" daybreak was more than likely to
happen.
But we didn’t have a spectacular sunrise. The day dawned bright and
brittle. The sun just marched up over the horizon, cold and hard in the east.
And it frosted last night…the first frost of the season. The bright hard rays of
the rising sun glittered off the sodden masses of my garden flowers that were
killed by the frost. So, tell me…what kind of omen is that? Coming to Terms… November 3, 2004.
November 5, 2008 dawned grey and drizzly and dark…very much a typical late autumn day in the Pacific Northwest.
Yet I jumped out of bed, bustled into the café and gushed to my staff and any customer within earshot:
“Isn’t it a beautiful day!"
And I wasn’t talking about the weather.
I think you set yourself up for a good day and I do hope that your brittle, cold morning indicates that serious work is on the horizon.
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