Cultural and Intellectual History Tweets—The Book of Changes

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On this Date in Round and Square History

15 May 2013—China's Lunar Calendar 2013 05-15
15 May 2012—Flowers Bloom: Bloom's Emile II
15 May 2011—Hurtin' Country: Between and Old Memory and Me

[a] Literary practice RF

This new Round and Square series gets right to the point...and then starts circuiting around it. We begin with a 140 character tweet about cultural-intellectual history. This is followed by an English-style haiku (with a few liberties taken here and there—hey...English ain't Japanese). We end with a nice recipe. Simple, and to-the-point (except that it really is neither of these...and that is the whole point). Oh, and I still believe in complete sentences and fully-formed wrdz (they can't always be exactly "complete" on Twitter, but, as I like to say, "you can see 'complete' from there." Sorry, but that's the way I roll. 

If the tweet is "informational" (as today), it is "true." The recipe is "real." The haiku is just, well, odd.

[b] Choosing RF

I would tell you more...if I had more than 140 characters with which to work (+ spld thngs fny).

Tweet

I participated in a "reading session" today with a dozen talented colleagues. We studied the commentaries for two hexagrams—#63 and #64.

Haiku
Yin, yang, stable, not
Then choosing yarrow stalks
Divination change

After a big afternoon of reading the Book of Changes (and maybe doing a few hexagram choices of your own) you'll be ready for a good ol' Yellow River valley meal. Here's a hearty Henan Chicken Stew that will get you ready to hit the books (and divinatory work) soon.

Henan Chicken Stew

[c] A bit farther north RF