Filed under: September 2014 | Tags: breast feeding, Draft horse, new-born, Promise, splendor, sunbeams, sunlight
Duke in the dawn’s early light
September 22, 2014
When I was a boy, I read in a copy of Reader’s Digest, a story about a man who related a story of his childhood. He had heard our National Anthem and in his mind the words “dawn’s early light” were melded into the words “daunserly light”. That kind of light, he reasoned was for extra special things like the sun on a new-born baby, or the afternoon hue that engulfs a new bride. Our flag, bathed in sunlight at the end of a long battle, was of course that kind of light.
I read that story in the Reader’s Digest and laughed out loud, because for years I had made that same observation! Surely, there must be some divine light know as daunserly! It simply had to be that way…after all they made a song about it, that thousands of people sing. I belted that phrase out many times in my childhood, never knowing I was doing it wrong.
In my adulthood, I still believe that there is such a light. Perhaps there is a different name for it, but I still see that doggone daunserly light! When the preacher is preaching and light through the stained glass bathes his face, Is that not daunserly? For sure it must be that light, when a new-born babe suckles his mother’s breast, as the early morning sun shines on them from a window. Or how about when the sun breaks through the fog in the middle of a forest and sheds light on a tiny seedling? Perhaps it is the hype, or maybe the beauty, I don’t know. I guess for me it is the splendor, the wonder and the promise of something great found on the sunbeams…. All I know is; that I love it!
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RicelandMeadows 
Kinda like “Jose, can you see?”
Comment by Aunt June September 23, 2014 @ 10:35 amYes ! Exactly! Happy Birthday by the way!
Comment by ricelandmeadows September 23, 2014 @ 1:06 pmYour horses look in great condition & well fed! Look at those muscles!
Comment by Jacklyn September 24, 2014 @ 3:51 pm