Love is a garden of thorns and a crow in the corn and the brake growing wild

[sovay]

Rabbit, rabbit! Happy May Day! A pre-school class out on a walk with their teachers just went by happily shrieking under my window. I am actually a little surprised that the real-life equivalent of the Studio Ghibli Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet I dreamed about watching last night doesn't exist.

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[larryhammer]

I am disappointed that that doesn't exist.

[sovay]

I am disappointed that that doesn't exist.

Right? I'd watch it!

[newredshoes]

Can I ask why the "rabbit, rabbit"? I keep seeing it on the first of the month, and I'd love to know the background.

[sovay]

Can I ask why the "rabbit, rabbit"? I keep seeing it on the first of the month, and I'd love to know the background.

I don't know the origin! My mother's side of the family always said it on the first of the month; it is supposed to be the first thing said on the day, like a greeting. (I associate it with my grandmother first and foremost.) I assume it's a luck superstition, but I actually have no idea why rabbits rather than anything else, unless it's the same line of thinking as feet.

[newredshoes]

Oh! That's actually quite lovely. :)

[sovay]

Oh! That's actually quite lovely.

Thank you!

I did not realize until a few years ago that it was as widespread a tradition as it was. spatch was one of the very first people I met whose family also said it.

[alexxkay]

When I first had a similar question, I asked google, and Wikipedia provided an informative answer.

[asakiyume]

And yet those preschoolers have the potential to be brightly colored, charming mushroom children, such as Studio Ghibli might create, so there's that...

I saw two little girls the other day in the yard of a house that's alongside a stream, and that had lots of white and yellow daffodils in the yard. The girls were dress in salmon-to-red-colored raincoats and looked like little walking tulips, to go with the daffodils.

[sovay]

I saw two little girls the other day in the yard of a house that's alongside a stream, and that had lots of white and yellow daffodils in the yard. The girls were dress in salmon-to-red-colored raincoats and looked like little walking tulips, to go with the daffodils.

This is a wonderful image.

[selkie]

It's springtime so my anxiety is at twelve and a half about my citations in my first book.

But it is a nice day and it may as well be a nice month!

[sovay]

It's springtime so my anxiety is at twelve and a half about my citations in my first book.

YOUR FIRST BOOK WAS GOOD AND A BLESSING TO THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.

But it is a nice day and it may as well be a nice month!

I went walking and took some pictures! It looks nice to me!

[selkie]

I'm not worried about the content of the book; I'm worried the collection numbers have changed now that the collections are all catalogued online. I'm worried that in the age of the internet, one no longer cites privately held documents. They're going to be privately held until my grandmother, keyn ayin hora, shrugs off. She has shown no signs. She is ninety and change.

[sovay]

I'm worried the collection numbers have changed now that the collections are all catalogued online. I'm worried that in the age of the internet, one no longer cites privately held documents.

Okay, I can't help you there. Ask an archivist on Twitter? skygiants?

[selkie]

Hi, B!
I am really just keen on pondering irrational things today. It will all work out. N says so.

[skygiants]

Hello! Although I am not a paper archivist, I agree with N that things are very likely to work out; I cannot imagine an archive jettisoning its legacy catalog identifiers even if they also have new digital record identifiers. Also, I have heard absolutely no stirrings of the demise of privately held documents as a legitimate citation source. I think you're good!