It should be spring. It’s March, okay so it’s only the beginning of the month and the actual vernal equinox doesn’t come for a while. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, it will be at 7:02 AM (EDT) on March 20. I may set my alarm. But I actually think Spring, meaning semi-warm weather being around…
Category: Musing
purple
I like purple. I always have, it’s February’s birthstone, my birthstone. Amethyst, it’s a violet colored quartz. The Greeks named it μέθυστος methustos [okay, you can’t read that and neither can it] but it means intoxicated, meaning that the stone would protect the wearer from drunkenness. No. I can tell you, doesn’t work. Now, later on, in the…
Valentine’s Day
Ah, Valentine’s Day, of cupids and hearts and roses, red, of course. At first, celebrating this day was all about courtly love, where the lover makes himself more worthy by acting bravely. Since the middle ages it’s moved to romantic love, more along the medieval ideal of chivalry. Somehow, I doubt that unrequited love, comes in on…
Snow
I tell people I grew up without weather. When I was in college at what is now CalState Northridge, my urban geography teacher said that Southern California was in the last throes of perfect weather. That was why the movie industry located itself in the area. For a while I was truly upset, how dare…