"I never feared the critic's pen To live by my renown; I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down." ~ John Clare 🎨 Volodymyr Orlovsky (1890)

"Walk on air against your better judgement." ~ Seamus Heaney Summer Evening • Rosses Point 🎨 Jack B. Yeats (1922)

Waking up to... • Francis Ledwidge •

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely..." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Sunset at Orholm (1896) 🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted

Poem of the Day ⛵️ (Posted it on my X and Instagram with the poet himself reciting it) • John Masefield •

A word to make you laugh! 😆😂

Read with a smile... • Robert Louis Stevenson •

A little something for you ✨️ Kenneth C. Steven

"I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." ~ Étienne de Grellet

Starting off the day with...

A little journey through some colours I love and ways I use them - Teal #Colour #Painting #Teal

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Evening Meadow 🎨 Olga Wisinger-Florian

The opening line of '100 Years of Solitude' by Gabriel García Márquez is just so atmospherically perfect for this heatwave weather.

Carl Jung's advice for when life has got you down. (Worth the read? ✅️)

Pause for a moment, and read... • Edward Thomas •

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." ~ Hermann Hesse Fantasia (1899) 🎨 Joan Brull Vinyoles

Rounding off the day with... • Siegfried Sassoon •

Quietly read...

"Sudden and magnificent, the Sun's broad golden disc showed itself over the horizon facing them; ... and dazzled them. When they were able to look once more, the Vision had vanished, and the air was full of the carol of birds that hailed the dawn." ~ Kenneth Grahame

Entering Blessedness...

Some very fitting words for Father's Day from the one and only Robert Louis Stevenson ☀️ #FathersDay

One of the most mystical chapters in all of children's literature begins thus...

Perfection 🤌🏼✨️

Morning excursion on the paddleboard complete! (The water was so still it was a crime not to 😄☀️)

Stop a while, and read.... • Rudyard Kipling •

"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear." ~ Charlotte Brontë

"Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky The Church at Auvers 🎨 Vincent van Gogh

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver 🖎

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is united by it alone ... and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the eternal source." ~ Leo Tolstoy A Sunny Day on the Loing 🎨 Alfred Sisley (1892)

Breathe the air of enchantment, In a forest made for us; Here is where our souls will dwell Long after our bones are dust. 🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1880)

"There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water." ~ D.H. Lawrence 🎨 Charles Louis Signoret

Majestic 🤌🏼✨️ • Kenneth Steven •

"Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle." ~ Fernando Pessoa

Always remember... • Emily Dickinson •

Lightly read... Kenneth C. Steven

May you be blessed this summer, many times over, by...

"There is no force in the world but Love, and when you carry it within you, if you simply have it, even if you remain baffled as to how to use it, it will work its radiant effects and help you out of and beyond yourself: one must never lose this belief." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I know not whence I came, I know not whither I go; But the fact stands clear that I am here In this world of pleasure and woe. And out of the mist and murk, Another truth shines plain: It is in my power each day and hour To add to its joy or its pain. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth-time were seen On the Echoing Green." ~ William Blake

Slowly read... • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin •

“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” — Pablo Neruda 🎨 Roswell Morse Shurtleff

"We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us." ~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux Rest on the Flight to Egypt (1659) 🎨 Francisco de Zurbarán

A Very Happy 101st Birthday to my Grandad Thomas McCarthy 🥳✨️ "The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it—basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them." ~ Charles Bukowski

A sublime piece of poetry ✨️ • Siegfried Sassoon •

"This then is salvation: when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator." ~ Meister Eckhart Deer in the Forest (1914) 🎨 Franz Marc

Countryside poetry.... • John Clare •

"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them." ~ Aldous Huxley

Gently read...

Such beautiful words 🤌🏼✨️ • Sara Teasdale •

"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom." ~ Simone de Beauvoir The Sunlit Interior 🎨 Carl Holsøe