:: November days... ::
" It is a time of richest sensation: the sights and smells, obviously, and the way its daily varying temperatures makes the skin...
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Nov 5
:: October days... ::
" I will cut adrift - I will sit on pavements and drink coffee - I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim -...
Oct 3
:: hello, October ::
" October is the best month when you live in the woods and maybe when you don't, but I wouldn't know. It's when the trees start to shake...
Sep 20
:: sap rising ::
" Damsons are ripe in early September, at a time when the garden paths are festooned with spiderwebs and the leaves start their slow...
Aug 3
:: July days... ::
" Summer did come at last and, when it did, it was one of those summers of poems and stories and country pictures, a once-upon-a-time...
Jul 15
:: shimmering on the pages ::
" He had the indistinct feeling that the priest's forgiveness was the greatest assault and most tremendous attack he had ever...
Jun 21
:: hello, summer... ::
" If spring is all about looking forward, and autumn about dying back, summer surely is the present moment: a long, hot now that marks...
Jun 8
:: May days... ::
" It was a brilliant spring day; the day was radiant. Even the air seemed to have a burr in it, as it touched the treetops; it vibrated,...
May 11
:: a quiet feeling... ::
" I'm craving silence, the chance to feel my way into the moment" {Katherine May} This deep need for expansive silence. To sit in the...
Mar 16
:: weel 10/52 ::
" ...and then just marvel, be astonished, at any object, movement or scent, finally recognizing - realizing - that there is nothing more...
Mar 5
:: week 9/52 ::
" Mindfulness means moment to moment, nonjudgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally...
Mar 5
:: week 8/52 ::
" Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone." {Lin Yutang} I've been listening to the...
Mar 5
:: week 7/52 ::
" Oh the joy of walking! ...the trance like, swimming, flying through the air; the current of sensations & ideas; & the slow, but fresh...
Feb 13
:: week 6/52 ::
" Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly, and quietly, and all the...
Feb 12
:: week 5/52 ::
" I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something...
Jan 31
:: week 4/52 ::
" I will sit by the river's trembling edge and look at the water-lilies, broad and bright, which lit the oak that overhung the edge with...
Jan 17
:: week 2/52 ::
Winter has arrived and it's freezing! For the first time in years, I've had to skip the daily walk a few times this week. My kids...
Jan 16
:: week 1/52 ::
Happiest of New Years to you! I had no intention of the radio silence for so long. It's been so hard for me to summon the interest to sit...
Dec 12, 2023
:: snowflake lashes ~ a poem ::
Several years ago, I embarked on a poetry writing journey. Each morning, I would wake early, pull out my notebook and scribble lines...
Sep 29, 2023
:: autumnal greetings... ::
" Autumn is my season, dear. It is, after all, the season of the soul." {Virginia Woolf} If you've been around here for very long, you'll...
nestled in quietude
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