I don’t do well when it the temperature is above 105 degrees for more than three consecutive days. Yesterday reached 110 degrees in the shade on my backyard deck, after two days of 105-plus weather. The forecast predicts tomorrow will be hotter than yesterday and Thursday nearly as hot.

So maybe it was something not so subconscious that prompted me to buy fire-red sunflowers as my offering to the Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma.