Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@pauljpastor She turned to the sunlight, And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbour: “Winter is dead.” It's one of Milne’s quiet little personifications of spring— the daff as messenger, announcing resurrection sideways, through neighborly intimacy rather than proclamation.
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My painting of daffodils, with calligraphy, reading, "Love thy neighbor as thyself. Mark 12:31"
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 11 Mar 2024
@JillianHazel @Plough Beautiful. The plant over-harvested, there were 'Save Our Dandelions' societies in the UK in the 50's. Notable, as such, that dandelion's status as America's most reviled plant, is entirely a constructed phantasm - a demon of the commoditized imagination. ?s=20
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