Light Rains Sometimes Fall Parikian Lev
Light Rains Sometimes Fall Parikian Lev See the British year afresh and experience a new way of connecting with nature - through the prism of Japan's seventy-two ancient micro seasons.Across…
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Light Rains Sometimes Fall Parikian Lev
See the British year afresh and experience a new way of connecting with nature - through the prism of Japan's seventy-two ancient micro seasons.Across seventy-two short chapters and twelve months, writer and nature lover Lev Parikian charts the changes that each of these ancient micro seasons (of a just a few days each) bring to his local patch - garden, streets, park and wild cemetery. But the seasonal rhythms - and the power of nature to reflect and enhance our mood - remain. From the birth of spring (risshun) in early February to 'the greater cold' (daikan) in late January, Lev draws our eye to the exquisite beauty of the outside world, day-to-day.Instead of Japan's lotus blossom, praying mantis and bear, he watches bramble, woodlouse and urban fox; hawthorn, dragonfly and peregrine.
By turns reflective, witty and joyous, this is both a nature diary and a
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