"They accused me of being Rowling's man through and through." "How very rude of them." "I told them I was."
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"Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls." ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett A Garden in September (1899) 🎨 Mary Hiester Reid
Pause for a moment, and read... • Thomas Hardy •
"Despite all the darkness, human hope is based on the instinct that at the deepest level of reality some intimate kindness holds sway." ~ John O'Donohue
... and into The Month we go! 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘆. The Arrival of September (1875) 🎨 Fidelia Bridges
And so, the 'Ber' months await... "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." ~ William James Cheering you all on! (Also, so grateful to have reached over 3k followers! 🙏🏻) Evening in New England 🎨 Thomas Cole (1839)
The opening of Edward Thomas' Blenheim Oranges is pure August 31st...
It's the August Bank Holiday in the UK today, and it always brings to mind this poem for me. (MCMXIV = 1914) • Philip Larkin •
"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for." ~ Thomas Merton
"Keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can." ~ Louisa May Alcott Around and Around the Apple Tree 🎨 Frederick Morgan (1885)
'Fern Hill' by Dylan Thomas makes for such poignant reading as we stand on the cusp of early Autumn. Certainly one of his finest poems.
"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul." ~ St. Teresa of Ávila
"Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another." 🎨 John Constable (1817)
"When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?" ~ Henry David Thoreau
To have faith is constantly to expect the joyous, the happy, the good. • Søren Kierkegaard •
"Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school." Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver urging us to teach the children. As she writes in 'Upstream', her collection of selected essays...
"Above all, do not forget your duty to love yourself." ~ Søren Kierkegaard The Yerres • Effect of Rain (1875) 🎨 Gustave Caillebotte
Pause for a moment, and read... • Norman MacCaig •
"Perhaps The truth depends on a walk around a lake." — Wallace Stevens
With the news of Dolly Parton, and now Tim Curry, fresh and present in my mind, something within me made me seek out this poem from the bookcase. Some actions never need to be explained, I guess; and it is in that spirit that I share... • Louis MacNeice •
