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And you're somewhere in the Winding Stair, thinking you still got a trick or two.
OK-1 Talimena Byway & Winding Stair Mountain
Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in Letters, Summer 1926
Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, translated by Babette Deutsch, from “You Appeared,”
Not the spring yet, but the smell of it.
All these years later, and nothing had changed. I was again alone, returned home, a marriage failed, a life tossed aside. And then he showed up at my door, and with him came the longing for the road we might have traveled together, for the girl who would have sat beside him in that car. A longing to be kissed and claimed. But what good was there in loving a ghost?
Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it
Normal languages: yeah we have present tense, past, future, conditional, sometimes imper-
Hebrew: We have Prophetic Perfect
Other languages: you have… wh a?
Hebrew: sometimes prophets talk about things that will happen as though they already did, to reflect the complexity of Gd’s relationship with time!
Other languages: how do you even -
Hebrew: PROPHET TENSE!!
"I want to talk to you about your stories" is my new love language
Alyonushka, Viktor Vasnekov (1881)
✨KUPAŁA NIGHT
Kupała Night is a Slavic holiday associated with the summer solstice of the Sun, celebrated during the shortest night of the year, which falls around June 21-22 .
In Anglo-Saxon countries it is known as Midsummer.
Kupalnocka is devoted primarily to the elements of water and fire, which have a cleansing power. It is also a celebration of love, fertility, sun and moon.
The Slavic customs and rituals associated with the Kupała Night were to ensure health and harvest for the saints. Bonfires were lit in which herbs were burned. Various fortune-telling and dances took place during joyful games.
Girls put wreaths with lighted candles into the currents of the rivers. If the wreath was fished out by a bachelor, it meant that she would get married quickly. If he was swimming, the girl wasn't going to get married soon. If, however, it got on fire, drowned or entangled in the rushes, it was foretold of this old age. They are probably the remains of the old spring magic rituals ending the enchantment of the "good beginning", referring to the soulful rituals and the coming harvest.
In some regions it was believed that you could not bathe in rivers, streams or lakes during the day until Kupala Day, while bathing after dusk or before sunrise cured various ailments, as water was then a healing element belonging to the moon.
The Kupala Night celebrations began with the ritual making of fire from ash and birch wood (some sources mention only oak wood). Jumping over the fire and dancing around was supposed to cleanse, protect against evil powers and disease. According to beliefs, aquarians, waterlines and drowners, as well as most other water demons, liked to lurk for summer-thirsty people who unreasonably take a bath before Kupała night. Only after this holiday, swimming in water became relatively safe.
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I’ve been doxxed 😨
I once worked on a phone campaign to disallow the trees around your crater from being cut down...
I am deeply deeply in love with you 💙 Thanks so much for your conservation effort!
It’s the small things we all do together that can make a big difference! 💙💙💙💙 And you’ve done it!!!
People just gotta know what Crater Lake and Wizard Island looks like
What in the Skyrim
been there several times. And yeah, Skyrim feels super duper Oregon in a lot of ways.
We gonna talk about Crater Lake, and Wizard Island and not mention the Old Man of the Lake?
The Old Man of the Lake is a log that floats around the lake. It is somewhat strange in that it floats vertically. It's roughly 30 feet tall, with only about 5 or so feet sticking out above the surface of the water. It was first 'offically' recorded in the early 20th century, though there are oral reports of it as far back as 1896 (and likely earlier still given the cultural importance of Crater Lake to the Klamath tribe of that area.
The Old Man should have rotted away long ago or at the very least become waterlogged and sank into the water fully, but nope. Over a hundred years, and there is this log still in the water just floating.
So y'know how I said the fact that it floats vertically was 'somewhat strange'? Let's get into some actual strange territory regarding the Old Man. It moves. Against the wind. It has been recorded moving in paths that do not make sense, never getting stuck on the shore of Wizard Island, nor the area of shore around the lake. Now that's strange.
So now let's get freaky: The free-floating Old Man posed a hazard to boats since it moves, and only a small portion of it was above water. (though personal boats are no longer allowed on the lake) Anyway, in 1988 a team was using a small submersible to explore the lake. The scientist figured it'd be a good idea to moor the Old Man near the coast of Wizard Island out of their way, for safety. So they tied some rope to it, to move the Old Man. As soon as they did so, the clear blue skies of a warm August day turned dark. The wind kicked up, bad, and it started to rain, then hail, then snow in the span of a few minutes...again in August. Now snow in that area is common, but not in the summer months. It gets super warm in that area in summer (like 70 to 90 degrees on average) So the scientists decided to nope the fuck out of the water, because of this freak storm. They unmoored the Old Man, preparing to get the fuck out of dodge of this summer snowstorm. As soon as the rope loosened and was in the water, as quickly as the storm had come on them, the darkened skies cleared and it was once more a fine sunny summer day.
As a kid, I spent my summers with my family who lives like... 40 some odd miles from Crater Lake National Park so I had this knowledge just kinda buried in my head somewhere.
I excitedly added a thing about the old man before I checked the notes so now I'm gonna reblog this great story instead but here is the old man!!!
"The Old Man floats vertically through the lake on a calm day"
"THE OLD MAN FLOATS. VERTICALLY. THROUGH THE LAKE ON A CALM DAY"
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Finally
Cryptobotany
I ran the Crater Lake Marathon back one summer in the early 20-oughts. It was a beautiful, but extremely challenging run. I saw the island, but not the old man described here. I may need to go back
I have lived in Oregon all my life. My parents took me there when I was too young to remember anything but the chipmunks. My first husband and I went, but the lake was socked in, and I was unable to see it. Finally, this year, my husband and I went after a short fishing vacation relatively nearby. It is absolutely a tourist trap now. But, the color of that water is nothing like you've ever seen. We had breakfast at the lodge (which is spectacular). As we left, I cried.
sunlight
natalie babbit, tuck everlasting
“evanesce, v.”
— I’m still waiting for the day when I can apply this word to my feelings towards you.
Twilight
first of summer
spring flowers linger
come dance
come dance
your twilight blue mischief
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artist -Dorothy P. Lathrop
word of the day
apricity (noun) - the warmth of the sun in winter
ex: Stepping into the sunlit garden, she couldn't help but appreciate the apricity that warmed her face on this crisp winter afternoon.