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[redbird]

Half of me is convinced the world is ending in a little under two months.

The other half planted crocuses this afternoon.

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[premchaia_pre4]

At least if the world ends, the crocuses will join you in the aftermath?

Or maybe that's not such a great thought. I don't know either.

[amaebi]

What sort of crocus?

[redbird]

It's a mixed package of purple, yellow, and white (the landlady gave us a few dozen that she had left from a bag of 100).

[amaebi]

Nice!

[tim]

Reminds me of the Brooks Williams song "Tulips in the Spring":

https://youtu.be/n9BiQHXdRgw

[vass]

I was thinking of Billy Bragg's 'Rumours of War'.

"Everything in my life that I love
Could be swept away without warning
Yet the birds still sing and the church bells ring
And the sun came up this morning

Life goes on as it did before
As the country drifts slowly to war"

I listened to that a lot in 2001.

[lone_lilly]

I really hope the crocuses are a sign we're gonna make it through all of this.

Jo wrote me a sonnet in reply to this

[redbird]

http://redbird.livejournal.com/1518192.html?thread=4147056#t4147056

[coyotegoth]

Same here, more or less.

[necturus]

The world will not end on January 20.

Crocuses survived the end of the Roman republic and the rise of the Roman empire.

They survived the collapse of the empire and the rise of the Germanic kingdoms.

They survived the Norman conquest of England, he English settlement of America, the creation of the American republic, and the evolution of the republic into an empire.

They will survive the fall of that empire, and in the far future, crocuses will see the ruins of its capital slowly return to nature.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I think planting crocuses is a splendid idea. Maybe I'll go get some bulbs tomorrow.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

We grew up with a sense of certain doom
Tomorrow would come nuclear and bright
To end the world and plunge us into night
And blow us all to hell without a tomb.

And then it didn't. Suddenly, there's room
To live and grow and hope and love the light
This unexpected future where we might
Plant bulbs and hope to see them when they bloom.

New futures bring new fears, so now today
Worlds may go on and still find ways to end.
In darkest times not everything is grey.

The spring will come, we have a world to mend,
Hold on through this, and find a better way.
Our future is worth fighting to defend.

[redbird]

Thank you.

This feels a little different than the pre-1990 sense of doom, though. Unlike Yossarian, I apparently feel like it makes a difference that they might be shooting at me specifically on top of the risk of blowing up the entire world.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean. Every year I sing this song to get me through the winter -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoHED7zEjlY. This year it feels like it's going to take a bigger leap of faith than usual. The world isn't going to end so suddenly. The world as we know it already started to end a while ago. There will be a new world, and we have no idea what it'll look like, but we can be fairly confident it'll have crocuses in it (thank you!). I think I'll plant my hollyhock seeds today. Or maybe I should first plant bulbs and then seeds...