Is It Just Another May Day or Not?
Where there is a call for help there is an opportunity for growth
What does May Day the celebration on May 1- have to do with the international distress call, "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday"? Nothing, as it turns out. An airport radio officer in London invented the emergency code in 1923. Challenged to come up with a word that would be easily understood by pilots and ground staff in case of an emergency, Frederick Mockford coined the word "mayday" because it sounded like "m'aider," a shortened version of the French term for " come and help me."
MAYDAY MAYDAY is kind of like the call out to the Divine Universe that helps me have the strength to surrender into the Divine Flow of the universe to help me in this time where I need emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual support as I am challenged with daily emotions that can send me off-center. The call-out within local communities, national and worldwide has been heard and the kindness that this pouring back to humanity is felt. Was that the May Day call of Mother Earth for humans to awaken to what is important in our daily life of connectivity? To ourselves and others?
Let’s go to the flip side of history earlier than the distress call -- MayDay- the first of May traditionally a celebration with a long and varied history, dating back millennia. Throughout the years, there have been many different events and festivities worldwide, most with the express purpose of welcoming in a change of season (spring in the Northern Hemisphere) a celebration of new growth!
A time of gratitude towards a shifting change in the earth’s pulse of wholeness.
Celebrating new growth is what I am doing now on my patio. Typically with no-COVID I have a little yard with a few flowers. With Covid, I had an opportunity to plant seeds, nurture them and watch them grow in my handmade pottery – a true celebration in the site, the smells, and sounds of spring. With that, I am so grateful for the opportunity to just be in the moment of BEING. It is from this place of hope and gratitude that I draw on my internal wholeness to help me teach yoga to others.
And let’s look at the newest meaning of May Day - In the 19th century, May Day took on a new meaning, as an International Workers’ Day. It grew out of the 19th-century labor movement for worker’s rights and an eight-hour workday in the United States.
I’m thinking about our essential workers during this COVID pandemic and how they have heeded the MAYDAY MAYDAY CALL above and beyond for all! THANK YOU
And for all people who stepped up on BEING human from a place of kindness, love, and support, may this day bring forth a new awakening of BEING human with an awareness of Self, others, and the entire planet.
Once we get through this together … we will need another May Day Celebration because we will have reflected and answered the call!
May Day
Sunshine bitter bright
Snow no longer in site … not quite
Trees glisten, birds listen for their friends in flight
Soaring circling starring standing
A branch for landing another chance
Let’s continue the dance, as we sing
Even now a breeze might ring
Twerp chirp
Ring a-Ding-a-ling
Bizz BUZZ Zoom
Is this an online thing?
Lots of chatter
How does it matter?
Outside thriving
Inside dying
Where do we hide?
Get outside
Of your mind chatter
Go Inside
To your heart cave
Continue to be kind
Hear the call ---
Mayday – mayday – mayday all