“they who sing through the summer must dance in the winter.”
-italian proverb
here’s to the winter solstice
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image credit: Jana Vashti
Dec21
Category Archives: seasons
Sep22
from green to gold.
one of my favorite author’s
beautiful words
about my favorite season
as we slip from summer into autumn
Aug30
the sunday.
august is the sunday of summer.
-author unknown
Jun20
just living is not enough.
on the cusp of summer
walking by the river
three hours
before the season’s return.
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‘just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
-hans christian andersen
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hunron river, ann arbor, michigan, usa – summer 2020
Mar20
awakening.
“springtime is the land awakening.
the march winds are the morning yawn.”
-lewis grizzard
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image credit: pinterest.com
Mar1
sing me a song.
“It is the first mild day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before…
There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field…
We from to-day, my Friend, will date
The opening of the year.
Love, now an universal birth,
From heart to heart is stealing,
From earth to man, from man to earth:
—It is the hour of feeling.’
~William Wordsworth (1770–1850), “To My Sister”
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art credit: ‘sing me a song,’ by caitlin welz-stein
Feb2
groundhog.
“groundhog day is like a rock concert
but the people are better behaved and a groundhog is invited.”
-tom chapin
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image credit: trip savvy.com
Dec21
change of seasons.
change is afoot
and
winter solstice has arrived.
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“change in all things is sweet.”
-aristotle
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image credit:
‘Origin of the Spark’ – new painting by Stephanie Law,
as featured in her ‘Conjure’ exhibition
Nov4
the pumpkin march.
and it is time for the pumpkins to return to the garden…
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‘the preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons –
all those things have always sort of dazzled me.’
-anthony doerr
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art credit: “The Pumpkin March” – Guinevere von Sneeden
Sep23
a summing up.
my favorite season begins.
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“for the fall of the year is more than 3 months
bounded by and equinox and a solstice.
it is a summing up without the finality of the year’s end.”
-hal borland
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image credit: Yuma Hidaka – photographizemag
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