#驚蟄 — Public Fediverse posts

@chowleen 's post on "Awakening of the insects" reminds me of 寒花's cute Peanuts art.

#驚蟄 #Peanuts #Cartoon

“I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars."

-Wisława Szymborska, “Possibilities” trans. Stanislaw Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh

(my poet crush has the last word in the season of awakening insects)
#everynightapoem #驚蟄 #microseasons #poetry #translation #insects #szymborska

Recalling the Taoist parable
莊周夢蝶 “Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly” — and the tradition’s fascination with ephemerality of life, often expressed by the life cycle of insects: “To be born with the morning and gone by dusk.” 「朝生暮死」

From Ch 2 of the Zhuang Zi:
#驚蟄 #microseasons #spring #translation #Zhuangzi #insects

March 6-10: we enter into the early spring season of #驚蟄 or “Awakening the Insects.”

Or in Japanese micro-seasons, “Hibernating insects surface.”

驚蟄：初候，桃始華；陽和發生，自此漸盛。二候，倉庚鳴；黃鸝也。三候，鷹化為鳩。鷹，鷙鳥也。此時鷹化為鳩，至秋則鳩復化為鷹。

#microseasons #seasons #spring #Japanese #Chinese #calendar #節氣 #insects