“that beautiful season the summer!
filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light;
and the landscape
lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.”
– henry wadsworth longfellow
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image credit: the firefly dance, pinterest
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Tag Archives: seasons
Mar20
awakening.
“springtime is the land awakening.
the march winds are the morning yawn.”
-lewis grizzard
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image credit: pinterest.com
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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
Feb23
flow.
even beneath
the layers of snow and ice
the remnants of winter
not yet spring
the river emerges
never ceasing to flow.
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“be like a river. be open. flow.
-julie connor
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argo park, huron river, ann arbor, mi, usa – february 2020
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
Sep3
in it.
welcome to beautiful september
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‘i love september, especially when we’re in it.’
-willie stargell
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image credit: willowday
Jun21
liminality.
today is the summer solstice which marks the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere and the shortest in the southern hemisphere. cultures around the world have marked the solstice throughout history as a moment of importance both for the changing of the seasons and for our relationship with the sacred.
this solar moment marks what is known as liminal space, or space between. the concept of liminality is more than just a space between two distinct times; it’s also a space in which rules are temporarily lifted, and roles are reversed.
if the concept of liminality seems new to you, think about all of the liminal spaces in your own life, birthdays are a great example as they’re a space between ages and you’re granted temporary permission to do exactly as you please. part of liminity is that it shows up to transform you, and then it ends. in the example of your birthday, you’re now a new age.
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“the question is not what you look at, but what you see.
it is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon,
however familiar,
from a point a hair’s breadth aside from our habitual path or routine,
to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance.”
― henry david thoreau
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art credit: cy twombly, le jour ni l’heure: quatre sagioini: estate (the four seasons – summer)
credits: emily ridout, elephant journal, merriam-webster dictionary
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