“It was like walking through a folk song that afternoon — the blackbirds and the thrushes, the sweetness of the flowers, the boy I loved, and who might even love me, waiting for me between the trees.”
Seán Hewitt - Open, Heaven
#SundaySentence#FolkloreSunday#QueerBooks
“If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth...and I also was born with a great love of trees."
- Tolkien (1966 Interview)
An early morning shot of the Iceberg that was at Pouch Cove Newfoundland. It was just a waiting game to get some patches of light and interesting clouds to go with this big and beautiful iceberg. Unfortunately I don't think this Iceberg is no longer there.
Icebergs season is starting to heat up now! Icebergs are popping up all over the island!
Here is a simple shot from last year off Torbay Point Newfoundland.
ALT Poem text:
Colonizers write about flowers.
I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks
seconds before becoming daisies.
I want to be like those poets who care about the moon.
Palestinians don’t see the moon from jail cells and prisons.
It’s so beautiful, the moon.
They’re so beautiful, the flowers.
I pick flowers for my dead father when I’m sad.
He watches Al Jazeera all day.
I wish Jessica would stop texting me Happy Ramadan.
I know I’m American because when I walk into a room something dies.
Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound.
When I die, I promise to haunt you forever.
One day, I’ll write about the flowers like we own them.
He couldn’t sleep. The more he tried, the more he couldn’t. He tried Counting Sheep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of his honey, AND EATING IT ALL. ~A.A.Milne
Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst who created several watercolours depicting women workers in cotton mills and potteries to highlight working women’s rights on pay and conditions #womensart#WomensHistoryMonth
ALT Text of the poem. The text reads:
The Clothes Shrine
It was a whole new sweetness
In the early days to find
Light white muslin blouses
On a see-through nylon line
Drip-drying in the bathroom
Or a nylon slip in the shine
Of its own electricity -
As if St Brigid once more
Had rigged up a ray of sun
Like the one she’d strung on air
To dry her own cloak on
(Hard-pressed Brigid, so
Unstoppably on the go) -
The damp and slump and unfair
Drag of the workaday
Made light of and got through
As usual, brilliantly.
From Electric Light (2001)
March’s full moon, rising on 3rd March, is called the Worm Moon or the Sap Moon. As the soil warms, earthworms emerge, and plants stir as sap rises and buds begin to unfurl. This year’s March Moon is especially notable as it coincides with a total lunar eclipse in the night sky.
ALT A collage of close-up photographs showing early spring budburst on trees and shrubs. Swollen pink and red buds, fresh green leaf shoots, unfurling scales, and pale catkins are shown against soft blurred backgrounds, illustrating sap rising and plants coming back into life in March.
“Tigger is all right, REALLY,” said Piglet lazily.
“Of course he is,” said Christopher Robin.
“Everybody is REALLY,” said Pooh. “That’s what I think, but I don’t suppose I’m right.”
“Of course you are,” said Christopher Robin. ~A.A.Milne