It's Losar, the Tibetan New Year. 2135. The year of the earth rat. (or earth mouse in one translation.)
Peace, happiness and prosperity to everyone reading this and to everyone else as well. May your day be as beautiful as an emerald mountain range at sunrise. May your mind be as tranquil as a crystal clear pond above the tree line. May your activity be as productive as the ribosomes in a single cell. May your metaphors be as outlandish as a peacock's tail made out of fiery stars.
5 comments:
A beautiful wish!
I hope for some ribosome activity soon.
Thank you.
:)
When I formulated the ribosome verse, I felt a bit like I was casting about for an interesting metaphor, and that one, though personally interesting, since I had just read an account of the workings of the cell, is probably not going to elicit the same sense in most readers. In any event, it reminds me of an incident that happened when I was younger. A little girl was calling her sister various names like "poopy-head," and several of us older children thought this was very funny, and were laughing. (I realize now that this was not the best thing to have done.) Soon the girl had exhausted her repertoire of names of the form "X-head" where X is a childlike expletive. Not wanting to finish and lose her status as center of attention, she began casting about for other things to insert for X. I distinctly recall her looking at the stairs and then saying "Stairs head!" My ribosome metaphor feels a bit similar.
Well, I think it's more poetic than "stairs head." I'd never heard of ribosomes but I perfectly understood the meaning of the line. And the last line caps it beautifully by mocking it just a touch.
That's a funny story, though. It reminds me of my older niece who was always dying to be one of the grownups. She came with us on a drive and grabbed a new stuffed animal at the last minute -- we asked what its name was and she looked around wildly at the scenery and said "Trees!" I've always remembered how avidly she scrambled to not be at a loss.
"Trees" is a great name for a stuffed animal. And that reminds me how my youngest brother used to draw a comic strip with a character named "Ton." When we asked him why that name, it turns out it was because he had just learned the word that day at school.
I kinda like "Poopy head."--s29
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