Tag: Scarves
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Jungle Love
To speak of jungle love is to speak of lawless love, and few if any rival that from a Wild Western in this genre of romance. Among the Western love stories, the most legendary is that of Bonnie and Clyde, having crossed cultural boundaries to capture the world’s imagination. It is said that Serge Gainsbourg…
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The Jaguar
As the lion is of the desert and the tiger of the jungle, the jaguar reigns supreme in the woodlands of the Americas. Equal in fierceness to the Asiatic tiger, the jaguar possesses enormous strength, with jaws powerful enough to pierce through the skull between the ears, delivering a fatal bite to the brain. These…
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Spirit of the Forest
“There is a brave traveler who dares to venture into the dense tropical forests of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to admire a pre-Hispanic city…the type of hike undertaken by hardy individuals with legs resistant to mud and heads that are not so sane if they truly enjoy the situation.” So it was written…
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The Butterfly
This is the first summer that a pair of white butterflies have become regular residents at the garden. Naturally it makes me look into what has changed from the previous years, and truly the biggest difference is that I have left the garden more unkempt. Much of the vegetation blooming during springtime has been left…
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The Dragonfly
The Brazilian poet Mário Quintana was quoted to have said, “Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.” As a gardener, I can say that birds will come as soon as there’s a slightest sighting of fruits, flowers, a water puddle, or even just freshly tilled soil, but it’s…
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An Insect Parade
Long before any other societies appeared on earth, there were termites. In the shadow of dinosaurs, the earliest termites formed the first social networks. To make the most of food resources in a nutrient-poor habitat, these insects evolved to feed each other portions of their waste through a process called proctodeal trophollaxis. These symbiotic associations…
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The Water Lily
“And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.” – Matthew 6:28 In his Sermon on the Mount, while speaking to his followers upon their anxiety about clothing, Jesus evoked the image of the flower lily. Particularly notable is his skillful…
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The Lotus
In Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Odysseus told of the Lotus-eaters, the Lotophagi race who lived on an island off the coast of Tunisia. On this island were full of lotus trees. “Whosoever of them ate of the honey-sweet fruit of the lotus, had no longer any wish to bring back word or to return,…
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Jackie’s Cotton Shift Dress
When peace and prosperity returned after the long years of World War II, Paris reigned again as the arbiter of high fashion, and the powers that be were turning their eyes toward a race into space, a young lady would emerge to become the epitome of glamor, who captivated the public eye as an American…
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Kawa Ora
Tattoos have been practiced for millennia across the world as a form of cultural and historical record. In ancient Egypt and Nubia, women tattooed on their thighs the image of Bes, a deity associated with fertility and childbirth. For the Ainu people of Japan, the tattoo was a symbol of beauty, a talisman, and an…
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