:: twinkle & delight ::
" Happiness is in it... and in this quiet of ordinary things. A table, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And a petal...
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Nov 19, 2022
:: fills my soul with delight ::
" When the trees thicken into a wood, the fragrance of the wet earth and rotting leaves fills my soul with delight... I particularly...
Nov 11, 2022
:: mellow fruitfulness ::
" Autumn is a time to gently slow down; to rest, reflect, and prepare for winter; to embrace a sense of mellow fruitfulness, by easing...
Nov 9, 2022
:: these November skies ::
" Than these November skies is no sky lovelier. ...Not rose, nor amber, nor the scarce late green, is truly seen - In all the myriad...
Nov 5, 2022
:: a wild longing ::
" On an afternoon in October, or the beginning of November, a fresh watery afternoon, when turf & paths were strewn rustling with moist,...
Nov 3, 2022
:: The pearl gray month... ::
"November is the pearl-gray month, the changeling between warm crimson October and cold white December, the month when the leaves fall in...
Nov 1, 2022
:: October days... ::
" The rustling of leaves under the feet in the woods and under hedges. The crumpling of cat-ice and snow down wood rides, narrow lanes...
Oct 29, 2022
:: a fine autumnal day ::
" It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day, the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always...
Oct 27, 2022
:: quiet arrival ::
" I have never been let down by autumn, to me it is always beautiful, always rich, it always gives in heaping measure, and sometimes it...
Oct 25, 2022
:: 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...
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...
nestled in quietude
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