:: this month of merry jubilee ::
October comes, a mourning song in the air, a soft weeping in the willow tree... a mission of night-carving spirits from the breeze." ...
Search
- 3 days ago
:: my dear October... ::
" It was October again - a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valley were filled with delicate mists as if...
- 5 days ago
:: September days... ::
" Fall has fallen. The leaves are yellow against the dark blue-grey sky and the winds have picked up. The winds that are still warm and...
- 7 days ago
:: this is the month of quiet days... ::
" This is the month of quiet days, crimson creepers, and blackberries; of mellow afternoons in the ripening garden... of wood fires in...
- Sep 25
:: come said the wind to the leaves ::
" Come said the wind to the leaves one day, come o'er the meadows and we will play. Put on your dresses scarlet & gold, for summer is...
- Sep 23
:: welcome, autumn ::
" I notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature." {Nietzche} Welcome autumn! a season for listening, to racing...
- Sep 19
:: a reading journey ::
“ I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that...
- Sep 17
:: small lessons ::
" Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you're waiting..." {Joyce Meyer} As this home building slowly moves...
- Sep 15
:: realms of the inner life ::
" Thoughts begin to come to me in their quiet way... " {Brenda Ueland} The lines I read, the photographs I capture, the thoughts I...
- Sep 13
:: a season of rest & quietness ::
" I love this season of gradual withdrawal by nature, but a subtle inner withdrawal too; a slow, imperceptible retreat into ourselves. ...
- Sep 11
:: pierced heart & soul ::
" Literature, before anything else, is saying, Be mindful. Stop whatever you are doing & notice. Allow yourself to be seized by this." ...
- Sep 9
:: everyday luminous ::
" We are in for a spell of perfect weather now, everyday luminous, every night brimmed with stars. Picnics at noon, supper by the...
- Sep 2
:: hello, September ::
" Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul." {Peggy Horton} An awakened soul. A new energy thrums in...
- Aug 31
:: August days... ::
" Oh, I know how it is looking out in the garden this golden weather, how the placid hours are slipping by in unchanged peace, how strong...
- Aug 27
:: 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
:: 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 19
:: 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
:: 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
:: 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
:: 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...
nestled in quietude