" 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...

" That strangely still pause between summer & autumn, greenery and gold, and the heat and the rising wind that is once again readying...