Butterfly
lecture/Carlos Pueblo
I went to a
butterfly lecture at our community center presented
By Dr. Nancy
Grieg, the director of butterfly section of Houston
Natural
Museum. Grieg has had a big audience varies from elementary
school to
senior citizen with different kinds of
interest in butterfly.
Before
attending the lecture, I pulled out two articles which I wrote in
1999, my
only visit on her butterfly room at the museum. I describes
my old
memory of catching butterfly in my old mountain home town
of Puli at
the central mountains area of Taiwan and my fascination of
butterfly
after the pupa or chrysalis breaking out of the cocoon and flying
out of the
world. She did not have time enough to touch this part of
philosophy
yet I did remind her current description of human behavior
which
appears on my second article. People like me become very shy
in the aging
stage living in a lonely environment called cocooning in
inset world
which she hears about it and is not adequate to talk about it
in front of
the youngster audience full of energy in front of their life.
There are
two citrus on our back yard, one California lemon and one
tangerine,
with blossom in the spring. I am always waiting for a kind
of butterfly
to drop by we call it the pomelo moth, either male or female.
Taiwanese
kids name the butterfly based on its color and where it appears.
This pomelo
moth appears on the pomelo blossom in front of our front
yard every
year. This has been almost 60 years since I moved away from
that township
and been back several times without having back that old
sweet
memory. I think and the good doctor agrees that the pomelo moth
is swallow
tail butterfly, black base with two tails or I call it the two ear
rings.
Butterfly
has its life span, egg, caterpillar, pupa, cocoon, butterfly and
repeat it.
Chinese Daoist Chuang Tsu did mention that he dreamed of
butterfly
yet his dream was not very much to pass on due to the first
Emperor’s
burning of all books before the unification of China. It’s
under Daoism
yet we don’t know what it is very much. After him, there
has been
none of Chinese philosophers ever think of such philosophy
any longer.
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