" She takes a deep breath of the autumn air, crisp & peppery, fuevulous & sweet, she feels it crackle down to the bottom of her lungs....

" There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of...

" Soon the fire is raging, smoke pooling in corners of the inky room, the crackle of flames a primal sound that calms... connecting her...

“ 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...

" I believe a work of art is primarily concerned with the creation of beauty, whether through words, colors, shapes, sounds, or movement....

" What is divinity if it can come only in silent shadows and in dreams? Shall she not find in comforts of the sun, in pungent fruit and...

" She looked at the steady light...watching it with fascination, hypnotized, as if it were stroking with its silver fingers some sealed...

"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...

To Morning " O holy virgin! clad in purest white, Unlock heavens golden gates, and issue forth; Awake the dawn that sleeps in heaven; let...

~ fields glistened like cloths of silver ~ a tang in the very air that inspired the hearts of maidens ~ all feathery and wonderful ~...

" She is constant in all things. She is a fixed star, a true made bow." {Circe} ~ heavenly bliss ~ fringed with joy ~ into the very heart...

" We must risk delight. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world." {Jack Gilbert} ~ it...

" Surely, if something, anything, is to sustain your attention, your passion over a lifetime, it must have the capacity to reveal layers...

" For the beauty of the world, and for its deep pull, for the mystery of it, & it's timing, for it's deep, deep knowing." {Once there...

" Let silence take you to the core of life " {Rumi} Hello, dear readers, I've been happily absorbed in organizing my extensive word...

" Slow reading is a craft, a practice, a quiet movement, a meditative approach to the reading life." ~ to feel our landscape marvelously...

~ clarity flooded through her ~ moonless and pulsating with distant stars ~ pour all of her attention, pin all of her hopes ~ basked in...

" That need to set down words - what I see, so - but words, words mostly - words have been all my life - this need is like the spider's...

Last January, I found myself happily immersed between the pages of this mysterious, often funny and highly entertaining gothic novel. I...