The resilience of small things
Jan. 3rd, 2024 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilyI'd just about given up on the snowdrops I planted in 2022 but at least two have survived! I planted 25 originally and I think about half-a-dozen made it last year, but hopefully these two will keep going.
I'm also hopeful we'll have damselflies again. During the summer of 2022, about 30 emerged from our tiny pond (#itsapondnotapuddle), which I found completely amazing because it's in just about the coldest spot in the garden. Last winter, the pond froze solid for days at a time and the nymphs clearly did not survive. This winter, it's been frozen for just one day, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I have reached the Collapsing Bridge of Doom in the Kasane run of Scarlet Nexus. Even though I now have a strategy for crossing it, I have just died about 7 times in a row. It's late and I'm tired, so I'll try again tomorrow.
And I've ticked another film off my Tivo list - Love Again. Yes, it's a romcom featuring Celine Dion, but it also has Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Russel Tovey and Celia Imrie! It was a nice little distraction and underlines the importance of honesty in relationships.
In this life, we have a part to play, a thing to do that's just ours. For some people, it's singing on stage in front of thousands of adoring fans. For some, it's creating an exciting (or sentimental, or puzzling, or horrifying, or... or...) video game. For some, it's selling snowdrops to herald the spring in the gardens of strangers. For some, it's to find joy in beautiful little insects shedding the skins they no longer need and knowing that they (the human) provided them (the insects) with the perfect environment completely by chance.
I'm also hopeful we'll have damselflies again. During the summer of 2022, about 30 emerged from our tiny pond (#itsapondnotapuddle), which I found completely amazing because it's in just about the coldest spot in the garden. Last winter, the pond froze solid for days at a time and the nymphs clearly did not survive. This winter, it's been frozen for just one day, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I have reached the Collapsing Bridge of Doom in the Kasane run of Scarlet Nexus. Even though I now have a strategy for crossing it, I have just died about 7 times in a row. It's late and I'm tired, so I'll try again tomorrow.
And I've ticked another film off my Tivo list - Love Again. Yes, it's a romcom featuring Celine Dion, but it also has Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Russel Tovey and Celia Imrie! It was a nice little distraction and underlines the importance of honesty in relationships.
In this life, we have a part to play, a thing to do that's just ours. For some people, it's singing on stage in front of thousands of adoring fans. For some, it's creating an exciting (or sentimental, or puzzling, or horrifying, or... or...) video game. For some, it's selling snowdrops to herald the spring in the gardens of strangers. For some, it's to find joy in beautiful little insects shedding the skins they no longer need and knowing that they (the human) provided them (the insects) with the perfect environment completely by chance.
