“i’m so glad to live in a world where there are octobers.”
-l.m. montgomery
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art credit: aleksandraszmidt.com
Oct2
octobers.
Tag Archives: seasons
Sep22
fall, again.
my favorite season – fall has arrived
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Fall Song
Another year gone, leaving everywhere
its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves,
the uneaten fruits crumbling damply
in the shadows, unmattering back
from the particular island
of this summer, this NOW, that now is nowhere
except underfoot, moldering
in that black subterranean castle
of unobservable mysteries – roots and sealed seeds
and the wanderings of water. This
I try to remember when time’s measure
painfully chafes, for instance when Autumn
flares out at the last, boisterous and like us longing
to stay – how everything lives, shifting
from one bright vision to another, forever
in these momentary pastures.
~ Mary Oliver ~
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image credit: Lumber Jane, Madame Cupcake@etsy
Sep16
streetlight.
out on a walk
not yet eight o’ clock
streetlight on
a warning beacon
season shines and quietly moves
nearing its end.
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“poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
-lawrence ferlinghetti
Aug1
very top of summer.
“the first week of august hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year,
like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.
the weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring,
and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn,
but the first week of august is motionless, and hot.
it is curiously silent, too,
with blank white dawns and glaring noons,
and sunsets smeared with too much color.”
-natalie babbitt
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image credit: pinterest
Jun21
today is the day.
happy solstice
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“do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it?
i always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
-f. scott fitzgerald, the great gatsby
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image credit: google images
Apr22
on earth day.
when beautiful seasons join hands
early morning, late april, michigan, usa, earth
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“the poetry of earth is never dead.”
-john keats, from ‘on the grasshopper and cricket.’
Mar19
burnin’.
yep, you read that right
perfect balance
exactly 12 hours of daylight
and
i’m not going to miss a second of it.
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“we’re burnin’ daylight!”
-john wayne
Mar1
march.
Feb2
phil.
puxatawny phil with some other (less famous) celebs.
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it’s his big day, and one of my favorite fun holidays
no matter what he predicts
about the coming of spring
(*not sure about his accuracy)
i love his spirit.
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*the national climatic data center compared U.S. national temperatures from 1988 to 2012 to determine the accuracy of Phil’s predictions, and he’s only been proven correct 39% of the time — significantly worse than chance.
Jan31
unbroken unity.
nothing like the feel of
walking on a lake of solid ice
remembering how it felt
swimming in its warm water
pure magic
“in the arctic, the inuit say water and land are the same;
they’re an unbroken unity.
in the winter, you travel on the ice because it’s the linkage and the easiest way,
and in the summer, you move around on the water.”
*-john ralston saul
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*John Ralston Saul (born 1947) is a Canadian writer, political philosopher, and public intellectual. His work is known for being thought-provoking and ahead of its time, leading him to be called a “prophet” by Time and to be included in Utne Reader’s list of the world’s leading thinkers and visionaries.
