:: a fine October... ::
" In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild...
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- Oct 23, 2022
:: autumnal harmony ::
" There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it...
- Oct 21, 2022
:: wild days of autumn ::
" I love the wild days of autumn, the west winds that rock the apple tree and bring down the leaves and fruit and nuts in showers, and...
- Oct 19, 2022
:: taking each day as a gift ::
" There is a smell in the air, the smell of autumn, a yeasty, damp, fruity smell, carrying a hint of smoke and a hint, too, of decay. It...
- Oct 17, 2022
:: the magnetic pull... ::
" Today can go in a number of directions, a thousand beginnings lie in front of us: we drink our coffee and reach out to a friend and we...
- Oct 15, 2022
:: holding eternity in my heart ::
" For patience joins time to eternity" {Wendell Berry} Mid-autumnal mood... leaves in full majestic glory, I walk enchanted....
- Oct 13, 2022
:: crickle, crackle, crunch... ::
" The days passed on, the weeks passed on, and the track of the golden autumn wound its bright way visibly through the green summer of...
- Oct 7, 2022
:: poetic pause ::
~ Poetic Pause ~ softening into the slow structure of inky black words stretched across the page an offering, this quiet cadence of verse...
- 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...
- Oct 3, 2022
:: 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." ...
- Oct 1, 2022
:: 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...
- Sep 29, 2022
:: 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...
- Sep 27, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: pierced heart & soul ::
" Literature, before anything else, is saying, Be mindful. Stop whatever you are doing & notice. Allow yourself to be seized by this." ...
nestled in quietude
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