01/08/2026
❤️🔥 Happy Calendar Change Day! ❤️🔥
'That you can live and die in seconds
Or burn for a thousand years'
This poem is about ideas. Or more practically ‘activation energy’. We are all struck by those moments weather mundane or grandiose, that inspire us to take out the bins, or start a company, or have a child. Some of these ideas last moments and some lifetimes. Both are good.
Jennie chose the day lily for this painting because she felt like the poem and flower really fit well together in a few ways:
First, and possibly more obviously, the colours of this particular variety of day lily (which is called “punch yellow”) are very flame-like and look like they could burn for a thousand years. A lot of the other day lily varieties are various combinations of yellow, orange and red which are gorgeous and also suitable for this poem — we recommend looking them up if you're not familiar with them, they're lovely!
Secondly, each day lily flower only blooms for 1 day! These flowers tied into the first line of the poem really well because they bloom for a lot less time than most other flowers 🥹