The eternal corrective...

"Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?"

--Hal Borland

A kiss

"A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the "I" in loving; "Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear."

--Edmund Rostand

Musical interlude for an Autumn afternoon

Parsley to take away bitterness
Sage for strength
Rosemary for faithfulness, love, and remembrance
Thyme for courage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfqpAWPx6T4

Leaves of Autumn...

"The winds will blow their own

freshness into you,

and the storms their energy,

while cares will drop away from you

like the leaves of Autumn."

-- John Muir

Autumn twilight

This very evening I did spy

a lemon sliver in the sky:

the moon affixed above the trees,

above the stillness of the breeze.

There were no clouds to mar the sight,

there was a coolness to the night.

I knew at once what I must do:

I'd write these words to share with you

the wondrous vision which my eyes

beheld tonight in Autumn skies.

And now you see that it is true:

this is the poem I wrote for you.

The beauty of it all...

"There is a harmony in Autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the Summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been."

--Percy Bysshe Shelley

A sacredness in tears

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.”



--Washington Irving