"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." ~ John Muir

A poem by R.S. Thomas

Mabon, kept at the #AutumnEquinox, is a modern Pagan rite of harvest & balance. It is said to be named after the legend of #Mabon, the ‘Child of Light,’ who was taken from his mother three nights after birth and later released—a story of triumph over darkness, rebirth and return.

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"Behold a contest worthy of a god: a brave man matched in conflict with adversity." ~ Seneca the Younger Daniel in the Lions' Den 🎨 Briton Rivière (1872)

Happy Publication Anniversary to a book that holds a very very special place in my heart. ❤️ The Hobbit • J.R.R. Tolkien (21st September, 1937)

• Wendell Berry •

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

David Whyte talking about the value of poetry for when a company or an individual may be feeling a little bit stuck.

• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin •

Written 206 years ago today. • John Keats •

"One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began..." Here is Mary Oliver reciting her poem 'The Journey' ✨️

"Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine." ~ Carl G. Jung September (1956) 🎨 René Magritte

Fieldflowers after the autumn cutting: little universes of secret wishes and beginnings waiting for you to groove along with ere they fade from view, but ever remaining within.

Take a moment, and read...

Getting lost in the pathless woods, where no one can find you, and letting the trees comfort you, is the perfect combination of both stopping Time and stepping 'out' of it. I would wander here forever.

A poem by David Whyte.

Pause, and read...

My favourite Autumnal book cover. (What's yours? Post it below! 😄)

A poem by F.S. Flint

From my little Day-by-Day Calendar that I keep on my desk. Apt for a Monday. 💪

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness." ~ Kurt Vonnegut 🎨 William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1867)

In times of darkness keep sowing the seeds of goodness. 》Vincent van Gogh

A rainy Sunday here in County Cork, and thus I'm reminded of...

Pause a while, and read... • Elizabeth Jennings •

"Accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are." ~ Marcus Aurelius, 'Meditations' The Undergrowth in the Forest of Saint-Germain 🎨 Claude Monet (1882)

Words for the Weekend 🤠 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D

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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." ~ William James

These reflective words from Rainer Maria Rilke have never been more important.

• Kenneth C. Steven •

"We don't understand that life is heaven, but the moment we do understand that it is so, it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, and we shall embrace each other and weep." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky September (1892) 🎨 T. C. Steele

Pause a while, and read...

"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

Rest in peace, Iryna Zarutska. Vichnaya Pamyat🕯🙏🏻🕯 (Ukrainian: Memory Eternal)

A concise piece of encouragement from the pen of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

This little lapwing is looking for a home. 20x20cm, oil on canvas, £210 www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/product-page... #lapwing #wildlifeart #BirdArt

"Go, sit upon the lofty hill,     And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild     Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them —     The summer flowers depart — Sit still — as all transform'd to stone,     Except your musing heart."

'Froxfield' by Edward Thomas.

"But you know the spot where our hearts meet; there, they can see one another in spite of the distances of places." ~ St. Francis de Sales

This line from Mary Oliver ❤️

"That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil—widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower." ~ George Eliot, 'Middlemarch'

"... and all at once, Summer collapsed into Fall." ~ Oscar Wilde 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡 (𝟏𝟖𝟕𝟑) 🎨 Claude Monet

Pause a while, and read...

Pablo Neruda with a love poem that may require a tissue or two 🥹

"And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach The Kingdom of Heaven and the name of that river was Suffering: and I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was Love." ~ St. John of the Cross

Christopher Tolkien reading this beautiful passage from The Lord of the Rings will never fail to move me.

"Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere, and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to guard us." ~ Charlotte Brontë, 'Jane Eyre' 🎨 Samuel Bough (1859)

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Late Evening in Norway (1890) 🎨 Kitty Lange Kielland

A little bit of poetry...