Daisy Chains

Have you ever made daisy chains? You make them by nipping daisies off near the base of their stem, use your thumb nail to pinch a deep groove through the stem then thread another daisy through it. It was a time consuming but fulfilling pastime.

We made them into necklaces or wore them like crowns, elegantly holding our heads up regally high and rolling around in fits of laughter after we’d waved queenie-like to our loyal subjects (the multitudes of sheep and cattle around us). It’s what you did to while away the hours of childhood.

Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum’s (australian music guru) friend Denise once said, “The most wasted day in life is the one where you haven’t laughed.” I thought about that for a moment and realised we laughed a lot when I was a kid.

It’s winter outside my front door, it’s breath is like a sweet singing song. I like the harmonies. Sometimes there’s two-part, soft and building and then, at other times of the day and like my own cultural vocal heritage there’s any number of harmonies that make the soul soar. At my age now, that’s a wonderfully refreshing sound to my heart’s ears.