The body as teacher.
The body as friend.
The body as substance.
The body as dream.
The body as sailor.
The body as ship.
The body as sea.
The body as troubadour.
The body as flute.
The body as song.
The body as ash.
The body as wind.
The body as tree.
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Back from an early-morning run in a very warm, dense rain.
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Thoreau’s journal, March 9, 1854. The sky clearing, the ice thawing.
Boiled a handful of rock-tripe (Umbilicaria Muhlenbergii) — which Tuckerman says “was the favorite Rock-Tripe in Franklin’s journey” — for more than an hour. It produced a black pulp, looking somewhat like boiled tea leaves, and was insipid like rice or starch. The dark water in which it was boiled had a bitter taste and was slightly gelatinous. The pulp was not positively disagreeable to the palate. The account in “The Young Voyageurs” [By Captain Mayne Reid.] is correct.
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Read Bees and Their Keepers, by Lotte Möller, Pages 57-84. For the month of April: Various Kinds of Guests at the Hive Remembered and A Survey of What People Have Believed We Could Learn From Bees Through the Ages. The roles of queens, workers, and drones; the hive as the perfect monarchy; the bee in religious symbolism.
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The Rambler, Numb. 19. Tuesday, May 22, 1750. He who chuses earliest chuses best. Observations on the life of one Polyphilus, whose genius is such that his attainments come too easily for his own good.
November 4, 2023.
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Categories: If It Had A Name
Tags: Bees, Bees and Their Keepers, Journals, Lotte Möller, Morning, Polyphilus, Rain, Reading, Rock-Tripe, Running, Samuel Johnson, The Body, The Rambler, Thoreau
William Michaelian 