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girlofprey) wrote2020-03-27 11:53 am
girlofprey) wrote2020-03-27 11:53 am
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It's my birthday ::blows noisemaker::
Some nice things for my birthday:
Fox cubs on a webcam
A video from a nearby farm attraction about what they're doing after closing, all their pregnant animals, and at around 19:30 on the video, their new Shire horse foal that was just born on the farm.
And since there is some sad anti-Chinese sentiment around, I would like to share this poem from the Tang Dynasty that I read recently:
Dreaming of Li Bai (2), Du Fu (trans. Peter Harris)
Throughout the day the floating clouds go by
And even now the wanderer has not arrived.
I have dreamed of you three nights in a row;
How kind and caring this shows you to be!
When you take your leave you are always uneasy -
'It is hard coming,' you say bitterly,
'There are wind and waves on the rivers and lakes
And I am afraid the boat may sink.'
Going out the door you scratch your white head
As if you have failed to achieve your life's ambition.
Officials' caps and canopies fill the capital;
This man alone looks worn and out of sorts.
Who will say 'the net is spread wide', when as
things are
He is beset with difficulties as he grows old?
Having a reputation that lasts thousands of years
Is a lonely business if you acquire it after you are dead.
I mostly know Li Bai from Civilisation 6, so I can say that he certainly has a reputation that's lasted hundreds of years. Whether he only acquired if after he was dead though, I can't say.
Some nice things for my birthday:
Fox cubs on a webcam
A video from a nearby farm attraction about what they're doing after closing, all their pregnant animals, and at around 19:30 on the video, their new Shire horse foal that was just born on the farm.
And since there is some sad anti-Chinese sentiment around, I would like to share this poem from the Tang Dynasty that I read recently:
Dreaming of Li Bai (2), Du Fu (trans. Peter Harris)
Throughout the day the floating clouds go by
And even now the wanderer has not arrived.
I have dreamed of you three nights in a row;
How kind and caring this shows you to be!
When you take your leave you are always uneasy -
'It is hard coming,' you say bitterly,
'There are wind and waves on the rivers and lakes
And I am afraid the boat may sink.'
Going out the door you scratch your white head
As if you have failed to achieve your life's ambition.
Officials' caps and canopies fill the capital;
This man alone looks worn and out of sorts.
Who will say 'the net is spread wide', when as
things are
He is beset with difficulties as he grows old?
Having a reputation that lasts thousands of years
Is a lonely business if you acquire it after you are dead.
I mostly know Li Bai from Civilisation 6, so I can say that he certainly has a reputation that's lasted hundreds of years. Whether he only acquired if after he was dead though, I can't say.
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I am sorry you have to birthday in lockdown. I thought about sending a card but I don't know how careful people are being about post and I didn't want to create a difficulty. Also I can't go anywhere and buy a card, so I was going to print you one off, and everything in my heart wanted it to be this one, because it is the only birthday card worth anything:
but I know that's more a thing I love than a thing you love, although you'd have to lack a heart not to love it at least a little. Anyway, this is the birthday card I would send to you if the world was not very strange right now:
I don't really get the thing about spotted hyenas - I'm sure they're delightful - but I do like the painting.
::THROWS HAPPINESS AT YOU::
I hope you have a good day now and then an even better day later when we're allowed out again and you can buy things and go places.
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Felici natum tibi! :D I am so sorry that you have to celebrate your birthday during these really surreal times, but I hope that it will be enjoyable all the same and that you hopefully get to do some nice things for it too when the shutdown is over with later. Happy Birthday! ♥
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