:: The smile of the soul... ::
" The deliciousness of discovering a masterwork. The beauty of the first sentences, the 'what is this?', the 'how can it be?', the first...
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- Aug 16
:: joyous expectation ::
" Today I live in the joyous expectation of the good." {Ernest Holmes} This past week I celebrated my 50th birthday. A joyous milestone,...
- Dec 10, 2022
:: softness & quiet light ::
" A camera records what exists in front of the lens, but it also records something of the photographer, who stands behind it. In a sense,...
- Nov 7, 2022
:: in this peace ::
" One lost the fret, the hurry, the stir; and there rose to her lips some exclamation of triumph over life when things came together in...
- Oct 9, 2022
:: with a winged heart... ::
" If you love, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too...
- Oct 5, 2022
:: October ~ a poem ::
October ​ " Bending above the spicy woods which blaze, Arch skies so blue they flash, and hold the sun Immeasurably far; the waters run...
- Aug 27, 2022
:: that strangely still pause... ::
" That strangely still pause between summer & autumn, greenery and gold, and the heat and the rising wind that is once again readying...
- Aug 25, 2022
:: this joy... ::
" This joy gives her experience of a genii-life. Buoyant, by green steps, by glad hills, all verdue and light, she reaches a station...
- Aug 23, 2022
:: word gathering ~ spirit of the soul ::
" What is divinity if it can come only in silent shadows and in dreams? Shall she not find in comforts of the sun, in pungent fruit and...
- Aug 19, 2022
:: comforted & sustained ::
“ There is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window...
- Aug 17, 2022
:: illuminate your soul ::
" Above all, you must illuminate your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and say what your beauty means to you." ​...
- Aug 15, 2022
:: all the lovely tales ::
" All lovely tales that we have heard or read: An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink. ​ Nor do...
- Aug 13, 2022
:: all serene & still ::
" and the evening lives o'er all serene and still... wrapt, let me view the magical world below." ​ {unknown} ​ with my head bowed to the...
- Aug 11, 2022
:: all that was light & air ::
She was blind and insensible to many things, and dimly she knew it; but to all that was light and air, perfume and color, every drop of...
- Aug 9, 2022
:: melody of the world ::
" Look & think before opening the shutter. The heart & mind are the true lens of the camera." ​ {Yousuf Karsh} ​ ​ in the midst of...
- Aug 7, 2022
:: pure radiance of a moment ::
" Moments when her thoughts, her simple existence, the fact of the world being around - and heaven above her, seemed to yield her such...
- Jul 28, 2022
:: poetic experience ::
" To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not...
- Jul 26, 2022
:: waking world ::
...but here was the wide world awake and yet only for me, all the fragrance breathed only by me, not a living soul hearing the...
- Jul 24, 2022
:: gentle whisperings ::
" Like a gentle whispering Of all the secrets of some wond'rous thing That breathes about us in the vacant air... ​ Perhaps to see shapes...
- Jul 20, 2022
:: glad & flourishing ::
" Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came. If the village had been beautiful at first it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its...
nestled in quietude
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