Countryside in Sardinia's Gennargentu
August 11 Tam-o'-shantered Acorns
Green acorns hang heavy in the oaks, ripening toward October when their tam-o'-shantered nut will be a harvest for every squirrel in the woods. From that harvest , since a squirrel's industry always surpasses its memory, will sprout tomorrow's oak groves. Thus, oak to nut to squirrel to oak again, have these noble trees spread and persisted.
There are about fifty species of oak native to this continent, and the acorn is the insignia of every one of them. They fall into two big groups, white oaks and black, and within each group is a variety of species. White oaks have light-colored bark and rounded leaf tips. Black oaks have darker bark and sharp-tipped leaves.
The old name for acorns, mast, came from an Anglo-Saxon word for meat. They are rich in fat and protein and in the old days swine were herded into oak woods to fatten on them. Both animals and birds still eat them. Green as they are, the squirrels already are sampling them. Another month
and they will be feasting; and planting acorns, unwittingly, in every woodland where oaks can find a foothold (219-220).
Green acorns hang heavy in the oaks, ripening toward October when their tam-o'-shantered nut will be a harvest for every squirrel in the woods. From that harvest , since a squirrel's industry always surpasses its memory, will sprout tomorrow's oak groves. Thus, oak to nut to squirrel to oak again, have these noble trees spread and persisted.
There are about fifty species of oak native to this continent, and the acorn is the insignia of every one of them. They fall into two big groups, white oaks and black, and within each group is a variety of species. White oaks have light-colored bark and rounded leaf tips. Black oaks have darker bark and sharp-tipped leaves.
The old name for acorns, mast, came from an Anglo-Saxon word for meat. They are rich in fat and protein and in the old days swine were herded into oak woods to fatten on them. Both animals and birds still eat them. Green as they are, the squirrels already are sampling them. Another month
and they will be feasting; and planting acorns, unwittingly, in every woodland where oaks can find a foothold (219-220).
14 comments:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1081/the-next-full-moon-is-the-hunters-moon/
https://books.google.com/books?id=f2BbDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA4&dq=V%C3%A1lery%20%22Les%20pas%22%20%22Vers%20le%20lit%20de%20ma%20vigilance%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=V%C3%A1lery%20%22Les%20pas%22%20%22Vers%20le%20lit%20de%20ma%20vigilance%22&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=gAjEAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA111&dq=squirrel%20oak&pg=PA111#v=onepage&q=squirrel%20oak&f=false
Exercise 87.
Thank you, for reminding me about oaks, acorns, and their mast seedings that occur in oak and bamboo forests that precipitate rat floods (for the year of the metal rat, 2020).
Benn and Layamon will alternate voices in the sestina, which should be Card XVIII, but I will play it as it lays, Card V.. Mathilda turns around from Ipanema to fly to the artic to study lichen.
https://books.google.com/books?id=wSq6CwAAQBAJ&ppis=_c&lpg=PA124&ots=LAa1jQ8Tl1&dq=mathilda%20Layamon&pg=PA124#v=onepage&q=mathilda%20Layamon&f=false
arctic*
https://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/passages/related-articles/gender-and-class-in-the-song-of-songs
https://books.google.com/books?id=QH-WDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT45&dq=%22She+has+seen+the+white+unicorn+and+wanders+delirious+through+a+wood+of+ancient+prohibitions.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9l4y1i9_rAhXYg3IEHaPABFAQ6AEwAHoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22She%20has%20seen%20the%20white%20unicorn%20and%20wanders%20delirious%20through%20a%20wood%20of%20ancient%20prohibitions.%22&f=false
http://thomaswoodruff.com/books-and-prints/
White Stag (2002-2007)
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/fragment-month/fotm-2020/fragment-6
I Ching Birthday Analysis
Birthday analysis for Monday, December 10, 1984 05:45
58. Tui - The Joyous, Lake
Above (in front): Tui - The Joyous (Lake)
Below (behind): Tui - The Joyous (Lake)
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Original_Confucianism_an_Introduction_to/UPGoAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=58.+Tui+-+The+Joyous,+Lake+Above&pg=PA222&printsec=frontcover
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/magick/tma/tma_chapt3.htm
Excerpted from Jean Shinoda Bolen's Gods in Everyman: Archetypes That Shape Men's Lives (1989):
"If the Hephaestus boy stays in the educational system through college, he will probably develop communication skills (Hermes), objective perspective (Apollo), and strategic thinking (Athena), and perhaps even ambition (Zeus). Developing these aspects in himself greatly aid an innate Hephaestus to be motivated and function effectively in the work world. They enable him to learn and develop skills through which he can do the work he wants to do, negotiate to be paid adequately, receive recognition, find a position, or sell what he creates. [...] [If not, then] [t]he man (or woman) may then work a lifetime at something that will never be more than just a job, however much he advances, because it isn't deeply satisfying, creative enough, or personally meaningful.
[...]
Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty, chose Hephaestus for a husband: he did not vie for her and win her or court her. Analogously, a love for beautiful things can just be present in a workingman's psyche, not there as a result of effort or study or exposure to beautiful things. This is a gift [from one ...] who thus 'chooses' him. [...] [H]is craft is married to beauty and love, and it becomes manifest in the shape, balance, and material. To do otherwise does against his integrity of craftsmanship and esthetics. To remain faithful to this inner standard, and to have his work grow, he must honor the union. Others may not appreciate either his craftsmanship or the esthetic element in his work, and he may be pressured or tempted to devalue this as well. But if he does, he will miss the joy and satisfaction that could otherwise come to him. When work comes through his Hephaestus-Aphrodite union, he feels touched by divinity as he creates. He is an inspired instrument through which beauty becomes manifest in manner (250-251)."
I will put Exercise 89 here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kJ4W4ay2RS44De65G22ms3xLrY94WGlW/view?usp=sharing
The view down into the box is not the best.
Thank you, for reminding me.
https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/ita/lazio/roma/2581_villaborghese/
I will put Exercuse 90 here.
Yes, I remember reading this, long ago, from the same shelf and Dewey decimal classification:
http://booksneverread-rays.blogspot.com/2007/12/twelve-moons-of-year-hal-borland.html?m=1
I would like to see a spring peeper.
https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Field_Guide_to_Your_Own_Back_Yard_Seco.html?id=08c0AwAAQBAJ#v=onepage&q=John%20Hanson%20Mitchell%20spring%20peeper&f=false
I grew up with these in my backyard on Stephenson. Copperheads would be bountiful with the frog season.
https://www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com/amphibians/frogsandtoads/gray-treefrog/gray_treefrog.php
https://books.google.com/books?id=VbxBu4RqTUkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=tree+finder+book&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb6qzBmL74AhUvFFkFHcAxDgYQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=tree%20finder%20book&f=false
May Theilgaard Watts has many that I would like to read.
I need to make more time between the overtime and recovery.
https://books.google.com/books?id=mPCRptN3s-4C&pg=PA208&dq=bur+oak+acorn&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ov2=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9j8qynrv_AhXUq4QIHQVeC644FBDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=bur%20oak%20acorn&f=false
Thank you, for reminding me.
Exercise 90:
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AsA4BY25Ql_1mx1h6W8Y91QaAAL7?e=Vt0EFE
I really liked John Hanson Mitchell's 1985 reprint of The Field Guide to Your Own Backyard. To be read:
The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness (2001)
Also, Katherine Freese's The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter (2016)
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