2023-02-19 World Whale Day

【Domination of Black (1916)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       At night, by the fire,

       The colors of the bushes

       And of the fallen leaves,

       Repeating themselves,

       Turned in the room,

       Like the leaves themselves

       Turning in the wind.

       Yes: but the color of the heavy hemlock

2023-02-19 National Chocolate Mint Day

【Bantams in Pine-Woods (1922)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan

        Of tan with henna hackles, halt!

        Damned universal cock, as if the sun

        Was blackmoor to bear your blazing tail.

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2023-02-12 Super Bowl LVII: AFC Kansas City Chiefs vs. NFC Philadelphia Eagles

【Youth (1918)】

Samuel Ullman (1840—1924)

    Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips, and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

    Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite,

2023-02-05 Lantern Festival Symbolic of Good Luck & Hope

【A Rabbit as the King of Ghosts (1940)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       The difficulty to think at the end of day, 

       When the shapeless shadow covers the sun 

       And nothing is left except light on your fur? 

       There was the cat slopping its milk all day, 

    &n