The Earth is Pushing Up Daisies

Daisies are everywhere this summer. It’s been a while since I have seen so many daisies. Last year I don’t remember having seen any on the property. Now they are in the fields, forests, alongside the driveway and in the garden. Why? I am not sure, but it made me think of the idiomatic expression: “Pushing up daisies.” I did a little research and found out the expression was recorded as first being used in a poem about Word War I: “Be dead and buried, as in There is a cemetery full of heroes pushing up daisies. This slangy expression, alluding to flowers growing over a grave, was first recorded about 1918, in one of Wilfred Owen's poems about World War I.” Perhaps the daisies are a message for us.