in the roman calendar the ides of march was the 15th day and was dedicated to the god mars. it was a festive day, and supposedly a military parade was held. here in manhattan we noticed on our way to music classes that one of our favorite windowboxes was in bloom with spring flowers.
by day the blue will pale down into white where it touches the white of the land, after sunset it has a new circumference-orange, melting upwards into tenderest purple. but the core of blue persists, and so it is by night. then the stars hang like lamps from the immense vault. the distance between the vault and them is as nothing to the distance behind them, and that farther distance, though beyond colour, last freed itself from blue. -e.m. forster (a passage to india)
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
idus martiae
in the roman calendar the ides of march was the 15th day and was dedicated to the god mars. it was a festive day, and supposedly a military parade was held. here in manhattan we noticed on our way to music classes that one of our favorite windowboxes was in bloom with spring flowers.
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