A newcomer, listening more than I talk for a while, trying to adjust to this new site. My interests, broadly, are #Transcendentalism, #Taoism, #gardening, #philosophy, #sewing, #writing, #poetry, #folklore. I might be obsessed with fabric. I’m definitely obsessed with robins egg blue.
The banner photo is a close up picture of a Luna moth wing, minty green with a brown line and swirl.
The avatar picture is a close up of a peachy calendula flower.
As we enter a new year, take a moment and consider the many reasons it's good to be a thinking, feeling human being living on such a special planet.
Bats can hear shapes. Plants can eat light. Bees can dance maps. We can hold all these ideas at once and feel both heavy and weightless with the absurd beauty of it all.
One late evening, the fiddler Spielkässer lost his way and found himself on the graveyard of Bensberg. As he was rather drunk, he decided to play a tune for the dead.
Unfortunately for him, in response the dead rose from the graves and danced. And whenever he got tired and wanted to stop, they rushed him until he continued.
He had to play until morning, and then never made music on a graveyard again.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #graveyard
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0xgWAAAAYAAJ/page/310/mode/2up?view=theater
“Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe.”
The Welsh phrase - "dod yn ôl at fy nghoed" means "to return to my trees", literally translating as "to return to a balanced state of mind"
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/about-us/where-we-work/wales/?utm_source=/wales&utm_medium=furl
#AncientWoodlands #AncientTrees #Woodlands #Trees #Health #ClimateAction
Prompt 6: Potion
One of my favorite folktales is a story from Ethiopia about a woman who asks a wise man for a potion, to help her stepson accept her. Man tells her she needs a lion's whiskers for the potion.
The woman, with patience and courage, manages to get close enough to a lion to get the whiskers. The wise man then tells her:
"There is no potion. You just need the same patience, courage and time with the child."
🦁 ❤️
#FolktaleWeek #FolktaleWeek2022 #folklore #folktales #storytelling
Lovely jacket! Really like the colour.
Are you familiar with Ῥαψώ (Rhapso)? She was likely a minor deity In Athenian mythology worshipped by seamstresses.
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