February 2012
Leap Year Folk Traditions
In Britain and Ireland, it is a tradition that women may propose marriage only on leap years. While it has been claimed that the tradition was initiated by Saint Patrick or Brigid of Kildare in 5th century Ireland, this is dubious, as the tradition has not been attested before the 19th century. Supposedly, a 1288 law by Queen Margaret of Scotland (then age five and living in Norway), required that...
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When F. Scott Fitzgerald was 6 years old he had a birthday party to which nobody came. He waited on the porch all afternoon in his freshly pressed suit but nobody showed, so at last he went inside and ate his entire birthday cake, including several candles.
“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a...”
– D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (via bookmania)
“There, outside, was all that was wild and beloved and estranged…and all...”
– Eudora Welty, The Winds (via seabois)
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent,...”
– Charles Darwin (via Turn of the Century)
So…be responsive to change, not resistant.
“I want to experience them all, to hear young birch plantations and trembling...”
– Egon Schiele (via seabois)
It's only procrastination if you actually end up...
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“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one...”
– Claude Monet (via seabois)
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“I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that...”
– Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets, Sonnet XVII, 1960 (via bookmania)
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