Headwear

Hats | Caps | Helmets | Headdresses

See also the previous posts:
• Headwear – April 30, 2022
• Headwear – February 21, 2021
• Headwear – September 8, 2020
• Mon Bel Ami – January 22, 2015
• Bel Homme – May 20, 2012

Images: Subjects and photographers unknown.

Happy Daisy Day!

Just because daisies are a common flower, doesn’t mean they aren’t a special one. Daisies are native to Northern Europe but can be found in North America, Australia, Africa, South America and even Iceland and Greenland. The word daisy comes from the Old English language, “day’s eye” because its petals blossom at dawn and shut at dusk. What is considered a nuisance member of the weed family can also be used to supplement gardens and yards. Celebrate the tenaciously beautiful daisy every year on January 28.

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Related Off-site Link:
National Daisy Day – DaysOfTheYear.com (January 28, 2023).

See also the previous posts:
• Amidst Daisies
• Brown Hare and Daisies
• Burgeoning Life Force
• Men Amidst Flora
• Spring Blossoming

Image: “Covent Garden, 1930” by deoidesign.

Three Hare Jugs

Image: Penny Boylan Ceramics.

See also the previous posts:
• Hare Décor – March 12, 2020
• Hare Décor – January 25, 2017
• Hare Décor – September 20, 2014
• Hare Tumbler

Morning Light

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Morning Light – July 22, 2022
• Morning Light – February 28, 2013
• Morning Light – February 8, 2011
• Morning Light – December 20, 2008

2023 – Year of the Hare

This year the Chinese New Year is celebrated between Sunday, January 22 and February 5. Many will start the celebration on Saturday night.

If you look at the full moon, the dark areas outline a hare’s ears, body, and paws. In Chinese folklore, this hare lives in the moon so that all on earth can see her at work. The Chinese word Tu-tz (兔子) can mean either hare or rabbit.

Two thousand years ago, Chinese art portrayed a rabbit in the moon holding a pestle with which to grind cassia-tree twigs, cinnamon or immortal herbs to give to Chang-e, the beautiful moon goddess or to other gods and goddesses. Sometimes, the scene depicts a hare, which is bigger and has longer ears, hind legs, and whiskers than an ordinary rabbit (but the Chinese translation is the same). Often, the hare faces Change-e, the moon goddess. Usually, the rabbit is said to be the color white, but In medieval Chinese literature the rabbit is also called the Jade Rabbit and sometimes the Gold Rabbit.

The zodiac year is like three wheels going around to coincide animals, elements, and colors. This year, the Hare coincides with Water in the cycle of elements, which is also associated with Black; so, fortune-tellers will forecast the future according to the qualities of the Water or Black Hare.

The hare is often seen as a symbol for longevity, upward mobility, and a peaceful life.

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Related Off-site Link:
Welcome to 2023 (Finally)! – Astro Gallus (January 22, 2023).

See also the previous posts:
• The Chinese Year of the Hare (2011)
• Sign for the East
• Qualities of People Born in the Year of the Hare

Image: Artist unknown.

Bel Homme

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Murmuration

Image: “Murmuration” by Babs Pease.

See also the previous posts:
• All Will Be Well
• Souls Alike
• The Beltane Hare
• Be Silent and Listen
• Don’t Let Them Tame You
• Up With the Larks
• A Husk of Hares
• Hare and Hedgerow
• All Is Enchanted

Mirror Dancer

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Pole
• Face Your Darkness
• Trio
• Ballerino I | II | III
• Dancing Hare

Hare Tumbler

Image: Artist and photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Hare Décor – March 12, 2020
• Hare Décor – January 25, 2017

Phallic Mating

Notes the website of The Man2Man Alliance . . .

For tens of thousands of years, the phallus was seen not simply as something to insert in a hole to relieve sexual tension or to impregnate a woman, but was worshipped as the sacred symbol of male creative power.

Representations of the phallus were everywhere, in temples and festivals, on street corners and in front of houses, mounted on chariots in triumphal processions, even in the wind chimes or tintinnabula of Roman homes [left].

Men in the ancient world were surrounded by images of the sacred phallus because male sexual energy was revered and treated with awe. . . . It’s essential for contemporary men to recapture that sense of the phallus as sacred.

For if we understand that the phallus is sacred, we’ll realize that it’s not to be misused to spread disease or for empty, meaningless sex, but rather to connect physically with the creative power of another man in the awesome and cosmic act of phallic mating, the ultimate celebration of the male-male bond.

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See also the previous posts:
• Phallus
• The Divine Masculine Principle
• Spiritual Phallicism
• “Downtown Heaven”
• Hard
• Not a Weapon or a Mere Tool
• Reaching Out
• Body and Soul
• Buddies
• Setting Free
• Sweet Release
• Animal Energies
• The Body: A Holy Place of Romp and Renewal

Images: Subjects and photographers unknown.

Running Hare

Image: Photographer unknown.

Threshold

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Bel Homme – November 8, 2017
• Bel Homme – December 8, 2013
• Morning Light – August 2, 2011

All Will Be Well

Let go completely, at the deepest, most primal and fundamental level – there is no “how” other than that. Dive deep enough within, and there it will be. The letting go will happen, and there will be no way back. All will be well, and more well than can be imagined. Nothing will have changed, except everything.

― Adyashant

Art: Angela Harding.

A 10-Minute Ultimate Beginners Workout

The following video by fitness trainer Joe Wicks (aka The Body Coach) is a “quick 10-minute ultimate beginners workout.” It’s low-impact and perfect for anyone who is completely new to exercise or getting back into it after a time away. Its aim is to gently build back both one’s level of fitness and confidence.

It’s also a great way to start the new year, especially if you’ve allowed your regular exercise regime to go by the wayside over the recent holiday period. So have at it!




See also the previous posts:
• Joe
• An “Ultimate Beginners” Workout
• A “Super Beginner” Workout
• “5 Minute Abs” with The Body Coach
• Day 1 of The Body Coach’s “7 Days of Sweat Challenge” | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7
• Jordan Yeoh’s 10 Minute Bodyweight Workout
• Funk Roberts’ 10 Minute Bodyweight Workout

Related Off-site Link:
• Joe’s Official YouTube Channel