" 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...

" 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...

" For patience joins time to eternity" ​ {Wendell Berry} ​ ​ Mid-autumnal mood... leaves in full majestic glory, I walk enchanted....

" 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...

~ Poetic Pause ~ softening into the slow structure of inky black words stretched across the page an offering, this quiet cadence of verse...

October ​ " Bending above the spicy woods which blaze, Arch skies so blue they flash, and hold the sun Immeasurably far; the waters run...

October comes, a mourning song in the air, a soft weeping in the willow tree... a mission of night-carving spirits from the breeze." ​...

" It was October again - a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valley were filled with delicate mists as if...

​ " 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...

" This is the month of quiet days, crimson creepers, and blackberries; of mellow afternoons in the ripening garden... of wood fires in...

" 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...

" I notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature." ​ {Nietzche} ​ ​ Welcome autumn! a season for listening, to racing...

“ 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...

" Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you're waiting..." ​ {Joyce Meyer} ​ ​ As this home building slowly moves...

" Thoughts begin to come to me in their quiet way... " ​ {Brenda Ueland} ​ ​ The lines I read, the photographs I capture, the thoughts I...

" I love this season of gradual withdrawal by nature, but a subtle inner withdrawal too; a slow, imperceptible retreat into ourselves. ​...

" Literature, before anything else, is saying, Be mindful. Stop whatever you are doing & notice. Allow yourself to be seized by this." ​...

" We are in for a spell of perfect weather now, everyday luminous, every night brimmed with stars. Picnics at noon, supper by the...

" Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul." ​ {Peggy Horton} ​ ​ An awakened soul. A new energy thrums in...

" 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...