:: October days... ::
" I will cut adrift - I will sit on pavements and drink coffee - I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim -...
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Oct 3
:: hello, October ::
" October is the best month when you live in the woods and maybe when you don't, but I wouldn't know. It's when the trees start to shake...
Sep 20
:: sap rising ::
" Damsons are ripe in early September, at a time when the garden paths are festooned with spiderwebs and the leaves start their slow...
Sep 11
:: august days... ::
" August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in...
Aug 3
:: July days... ::
" Summer did come at last and, when it did, it was one of those summers of poems and stories and country pictures, a once-upon-a-time...
Jun 21
:: hello, summer... ::
" If spring is all about looking forward, and autumn about dying back, summer surely is the present moment: a long, hot now that marks...
Jun 8
:: May days... ::
" It was a brilliant spring day; the day was radiant. Even the air seemed to have a burr in it, as it touched the treetops; it vibrated,...
Oct 14, 2023
:: word gathering~ autumn ::
" She takes a deep breath of the autumn air, crisp & peppery, fuevulous & sweet, she feels it crackle down to the bottom of her lungs....
Sep 29, 2023
:: autumnal greetings... ::
" Autumn is my season, dear. It is, after all, the season of the soul." {Virginia Woolf} If you've been around here for very long, you'll...
Sep 5, 2023
:: August days... ::
what glorious days these were. dappled light. crisp mornings. trees laden with the lustre of ripening fruit. air lingering with whispers...
Jun 15, 2023
:: May days... ::
" It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning. A painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless,...
May 13, 2023
:: a great, silent mystery ::
" ...moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind blows cold through the broken battlements and...
May 1, 2023
:: April days... ::
" ...everywhere birds building, flowers budding, leave thrusting - everything happy, and progressive and occupied." {The Wind in the...
Apr 6, 2023
:: March days... ::
" Like a tree, creative work has seasons. Part of the work is to know which season you're in & act accordingly. In winter, the tree looks...
Mar 20, 2023
:: hello, spring ::
" Spring returned. Birds followed ploughs. Stones were warmed by the sun. Rains and winds grew softer, and were fragranced with the...
Mar 4, 2023
:: February days... ::
these February days... a soft wind stirs through the trees... shimmering, shifting wintry light the crisp, effervescent air caressing my...
Dec 26, 2022
:: spontaneity and softness... ::
" ...that fleeting pause when time bends and magic hovers between the main celebrations of the seasons... spontaneity and softness become...
Dec 21, 2022
:: wintering ::
:: the quiet revolutions of winter :: winters arrival the still point of this every-so-quickly turning world a quiet beckoning this...
Dec 2, 2022
:: a heart all a-flutter ::
" Now winter lights its cheerful fire, While jests with frolic mirth resound, And draws the wandering beauty nigher, 'Tis now too cold to...
Nov 30, 2022
:: November days... ::
Goodnight November " The snapping pitch from a burning log, The faint scent of pine filling the room. Flames leaping about as if it...
nestled in quietude
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