“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
— from A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Léon Georges Jean-Baptiste Carré (1878 ~ 1942) 1926 illustration for 'The Book of One Thousand and One Nights'
Edmund Dulac
Roger Ebert just destroying some specific kind of nerd(s).
new and magnificent beasts will arise from the muck. trust me on this one
The solar calendar marks a day (or solar term) in the spring called 啓蟄 keichitsu, literally "awakening of insects." It's when hibernating insects, frogs, snakes, lizards, and other creatures are supposed to wake up and come out of the ground.
In 2025, keichitsu will fall on March 5 (it's usually sometime around March 6). I don't want to miss it again next year, so I am reblogging this post five months in advance and then throwing it in my queue for good measure!
TLDR: Trust OP! New and magnificent beasts WILL arise from the muck! Sometime around March 6.
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they sure do
🎬 Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
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Galileo Galilei, February 15, 1564 / 2019
(image: Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius, facsimile of the 1610 edition)
Moebius
Edith Rimmington, 1948
Jef Bourgeau
Kinoko Shibari
“Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon– everything belonged to the men who had the guns… So you protected yourself and loved small. Picked the tiniest stars out of the sky to own… Anything bigger wouldn’t do. A woman, a child, a brother– a big love like that would split you wide open in Alfred, Georgia. He knew exactly what she meant: to get to a place where you could love anything you chose– not to need permission for desire– well now, that was freedom.”
— Toni Morrison, from Beloved
