:: 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...
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- 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 9, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 2022
:: 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, 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 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 3, 2022
:: in soft lydian airs... ::
" Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked...
- Jul 30, 2022
:: July days ::
" And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts: A sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused,...
- 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 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...
- Jul 10, 2022
:: word gathering ~ dreams of summer ::
"The summer came to life It burst from gray to fierce blue and gold in the blink of an eye; the air pealed with grasshoppers and...
- Jul 8, 2022
:: on heavenly wings ::
" O, the solemn woods over which the light and shadow traveled swiftly, as if Heavenly wings were sweeping on benignant errands, through...
- Jun 30, 2022
:: June days... ::
" She stared. Such beauty; and she there to see it. Such beauty; and she alive to feel it. Her face was bathed in light. Lovely scents...
- Jun 2, 2022
:: May days... ::
" A blackberry branch laid its frail white flowers and blue-green leaves against the sky. Just beyond, a tuft of sweet-fern unfurled...
- May 19, 2022
:: walking in this world ::
" There is a place where words are born on silence, a place where the whispers of the heart arise." {Rumi} As long as I can remember, I...
- Apr 13, 2022
:: gently falling rain.... ::
" The rain fell gently, persistently, making a little chuckling and burbling noise in the gutters. Edward, leaning out of the window,...
- Dec 31, 2021
:: December days... ::
"The way everything changes. The way everything stays the same. The way those things are bigger than I am, and more than I can hold. More...
- Dec 4, 2021
:: November days... ::
" The hush comes with the deepening of autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now...
nestled in quietude
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