Filling the Well: Yasunari Kawabata and Alexander Mercks

 

"Snowy mountain and spring Milky Way Niigata" by Koichi Hayakawa

As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.

 

– Yasunari Kawabata, from Snow Country

 

 

"Milky Way"

A handpan meditation by Alexander Mercks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf36kl9UQLM

 

 

 

April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake

April 2: Hans Christian Andersen

April 3: Guy Finley, Anneke van Giersbergen and Árstíðir 

April 4: Joseph Campbell and Fabien Weibel

April 5: Salvador Dalí and Pilobolus

April 6: Jacob Nordby and Talking Animals

April 7: Aileen Fisher, XTC, and Takarazuka Ballet

April 8: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

April 9: Frances Hodgson Burnett

April 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt

April 11: John Burroughs and Stunts Amazing 

April 12: Beverly Cleary

April 13: Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Collins

April 14: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

April 15: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

April 16: Donna Tartt and Micah

April 17: Kobayashi Issa (International Haiku Poetry Day)

 

 

Filling the Well: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bashō, and Sir David Attenborough

 

Kim Loan Nguyen thi

 

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world,
and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
 
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

 

shell of a cicada

it sang itself

utterly away

 

– Matsuo Bashō

 

"Amazing Cicada Life Cycle"

Sir David Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth (BBC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjLiWy2nT7U

There's going to be a bumper crop (i.e., billions) of Brood X cicadas emerging in the next few weeks. Read my "Love Song" to the humble cicada HERE.

 

 

 

April 1: John Muir

April 2: e.e. cummings and enra

April 3: Edith Wharton and Henri Matisse

April 4: Cesare Pavese 

April 5: Anton Chekhov and Cat Stevens

April 6: Ray Bradbury and... cats 

April 7: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Hanjin Song

April 8: Albert Einstein and John Bohannon

April 9: Florence Parry Heide and Andres Amador

April 10: Zelda Fitzgerald and Arvo Pärt

April 11: Elinor Wylie

April 12: David Ault and Imogen Heap

April 13: William Shakespeare and Alice Tzue

April 14: Bruce Garrabrandt and OK Go

April 15: Anne Kent Rush and Bill T. Jones

April 16: Carl Sandburg, Raymond Crowe, and Louis Armstrong

April 17: Jean Houston and Lunch Break Quartet

April 18: John Milton 

April 19: Dante Alighieri, Don Francis, and Gregory Alan Isakov

April 20: Theodore Roethke and Charles Reznikoff

April 21: Octavio Paz and Salvador Dalí

April 22: Vincent van Gogh and Katsushika Hokusai

April 23: Nizar Qabbani and Quixotic

April 24: Auguste Rodin and Jamie Scott 

April 25: Rainer Maria Rilke

April 26: Terri Guillemets and Joni Mitchell

April 27: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bashō, and Sir David Attenborough