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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 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...
nestled in quietude
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