A great choice of topic. Much of the news these days tend to bring the worst out of me, and I suppose most others. Spite, anger, disgust and other negative emotions. All human generated. I try the good company of nature, for its inherent sanity and harmony. Nature brings the best out of me. The choice is clear. Happy Birthday!
You might like the book The Japanese Art of Living Seasonally (2024) by Natalie Leon. It has a chapter called "Hanami: The Ritual of Flower Viewing." In certain parts of the US, we do search for news about when then leaves will turn in the fall.
Thank you for the recommendation! This book looks right up my alley :)
You're right about the changing of the leaves! That's very similar... In the Bay Area we have less seasons but occasionally we also have some news about "super blooms" for large concentrations of wild flowers...
After writing the post I was also reflecting about how special Japan is that there even are these flower blooming occasions to even write about - the blooms they write about are mostly cultivated flowers which imply some diligent gardeners' handiwork somewhere in the background :)
A great choice of topic. Much of the news these days tend to bring the worst out of me, and I suppose most others. Spite, anger, disgust and other negative emotions. All human generated. I try the good company of nature, for its inherent sanity and harmony. Nature brings the best out of me. The choice is clear. Happy Birthday!
You might like the book The Japanese Art of Living Seasonally (2024) by Natalie Leon. It has a chapter called "Hanami: The Ritual of Flower Viewing." In certain parts of the US, we do search for news about when then leaves will turn in the fall.
Thank you for the recommendation! This book looks right up my alley :)
You're right about the changing of the leaves! That's very similar... In the Bay Area we have less seasons but occasionally we also have some news about "super blooms" for large concentrations of wild flowers...
After writing the post I was also reflecting about how special Japan is that there even are these flower blooming occasions to even write about - the blooms they write about are mostly cultivated flowers which imply some diligent gardeners' handiwork somewhere in the background :)
I have never seen a New York Times articles about flowers, but they recently had a good editorial about learning Japanese: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/foreign-language-learning.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
I wholeheartedly agree ;)