Jonquille or junquillo share the Latin root word for reed, iuncus.
For the Chinese, the jonquil is a good luck symbol.
According to the Flowerbulb Research Program at Cornell University, to stunt the growth of tall, top-heavy paperwhites use a dilute alcohol solution in watering:
To convert your booze to 5% alcohol, just divide the percentage alcohol by 5 and then subtract 1. That will tell you how many parts water to mix with your 1 part alcohol.
Narcissus, Photographer by Erica Jong
"...a frozen memory, like any photo,
where nothing is missing, not even,
and especially, nothingness..."
-- Julio Cortázar, "Blow Up"
Mirror-mad,
he photographed reflections:
sunstorms in puddles,
cities in canals,
double portraits framed
in sunglasses,
the fat phantoms who dance
on the flanks of cars.
Nothing caught his eye
unless it bent
or glistered
over something else.
He trapped clouds in bottles
the way kids
trap grasshoppers.
Then one misty day
he was stopped
by the windshield.
Behind him,
an avenue of trees,
before him,
the mirror of that scene.
He seemed to enter
what, in fact, he left.
8 comments:
This is a generalization ascribed to the Victorians--the jonquil symbolizes affection returned?
https://books.google.com/books?id=soo5AgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT182&dq=La%20Ghirlandata%20larkspur&pg=PT182#v=onepage&q=La%20Ghirlandata%20larkspur&f=false
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228544127_Larkspur_poisoning_toxicology_and_alkaloid_structure-activity_relationships_1
The man found over the guardrail was north bound and flipped into the south lane.
I have a Page-a-Day calendar, and I dreaded to see the painting with March 30-31st because a real strain of antisemitism runs through the the weekend. One that I never realized.
This was the painting. I like it a lot with the horror vacui. I have thought about Joan Thewsey's work all weekend.
https://www.meisterdrucke.us/fine-art-prints/Joan-Thewsey/253503/Daffodils,-Antique-Jugs,-Plates,-Textiles-and-Lace,-2012-.html
Maira Kalman / Kalymonus is a Jewish name.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2026-03-23
I made it to the Neilah stronger this time, but not without some sitting.
My caffeine addiction split my head. It very difficult struggling through it.
The reading of Leviticus 18 at midday is very peremptory, about unclothing nakedness. The same woman leined that part from last year. The Israelites cried when Moshe told them this.
It was*
I do not have any questions or modern rationalizations about Vayikra 18. For context, when the Israelites lived as a slaves as a bunch of sisters or brothers in one's tribe; this lead to extrapaternal offspring—there was no conclusive way to check. The grossness, of having sex with one's relatives or with one's sex or with animals, had to go in order to discriminate between Israel and other nations.
Even after fasting all day, I was not as famished as I thought I would be. It was not just a hygienic concern, but there is a reigning in of an earthly aspect one's nature.
I will use the leining tool on Chabad website. A long term aspiration is to read sufficiently well to lein.
I will watch the Friday and Saturday services from the shul that mentioned this today: Shai Agnon, who received the 1966 Nobel Prize with Nelly Sachs, had to pose for a photograph while simulating writing, and he wrote in Hebrew, "I am but ashes and dust." Best move ever.
To read first: S.Y. Agnon's Days of Awe (1995), and then a collection of short stories, A Book That Was Lost (2008)...the latter is about his personal library that burnt in a house in 1924.
To read also, now:
Eugene Cordes's Hallelujah Moments: Tales of Drug Discovery (2014) ... particularly Chapter 5. Stations.
https://academic.oup.com/book/40678/chapter-abstract/348370387?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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