Vernal surge
Feb. 6th, 2004 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaneramos
The flock of house sparrows that haunts Florence Lane is restless, too.
Sometime around Groundhog Day I always get hit with a surge of energy. I felt warning rumbles last week, but it arrived full blast when I got out of bed yesterday. It results from increasing daylight. First thing in the morning I want to bake banana muffins instead of huddling in front of my computer screen. My libido increases. I long to dig my fingers into soft earth and see green things grow. My concentration and self-confidence improve. I am less disposed to sadness and complacency, more inclined toward impatience and dissatisfaction. It is disconcerting, but now that I understand the cycle, it comes as a relief.
It emphasizes how sluggish I have felt since October. I resist calling this a disorder. It's entirely natural. The change of seasons affects the behaviour of practically every animal that lives in these latitudes. Why not humans? If Western society could accommodate it, perhaps it wouldn't make so many people unhappy. How I shall shape my career around it is another question.
A few days of temperatures around freezing have drawn a golden blush into the twigs of the old black willows. The maples remain demurely grey.
In honour of changing my user name to
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vaneramos, here is a new image of the Eramosa River.
Me and my river. It's still asleep, but I am awake.
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Date: 2004-02-06 03:33 pm (UTC)Sounds like you are feeling the flow of what I call the Imbolc/Brighid energy! Glad you are enjoying it. Banana muffins is definitely the way to go.
hugs, Shimmer
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Date: 2004-02-06 05:01 pm (UTC)Have one of my muffins.
xo
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Date: 2004-02-06 03:41 pm (UTC)Ron Howard, don't you?~paul
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Date: 2004-02-06 08:32 pm (UTC)he started as a child actor, but directs
now. and his hair isn't colored like yours.
plus, i've never seen as closup a
shot of him as i have you, so i could
be wrong.~paul
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Date: 2004-02-06 04:44 pm (UTC)With the coming of new life in the world comes new life in our hearts. We cannot help, when we are surrounded by the beginnings of so much life force, to feel it well up inside us. We cannot help but be buoyed by the promise of spring.
I can't wait until it's fully here.
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Date: 2004-02-06 08:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-06 05:22 pm (UTC)Unrelated: you have a very strong, handsome profile.
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Date: 2004-02-06 08:19 pm (UTC)Hugs.
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Date: 2004-02-07 07:45 am (UTC)Maybe in Canada. Around here, the fact that you're both men would probably put it at R.
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Date: 2004-02-06 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-06 06:16 pm (UTC)You should put together a collection of Reflections in the Eramosa.
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Date: 2004-02-06 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-07 05:22 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-07 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-07 11:44 am (UTC)On possibly un-work-safe photos you've linked to in the comments section: I rather like that too (from an artistic standpoint, although I have to admit it does fall into that vast gray area that so upsets U.S. Customs (the government arm) and customs (culture of far too much of the country).
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Date: 2004-02-07 12:10 pm (UTC)I like the birds' motion, too. I moved to follow them, so the landscape is even more indistinct.
humbly apologetic explanation
Date: 2004-02-07 12:38 pm (UTC)Re: humbly apologetic explanation
Date: 2004-02-07 12:54 pm (UTC)