"From the true opponent, a limitless courage flows into you." ~ Franz Kafka 🎨 László Mednyánszky (1890)

When they say they don't like dogs.

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Alychamps, Autumn (1888) 🎨 Vincent van Gogh

Pause for a moment, and read... • Sara Teasdale •

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ~ Charles Dickens

"The days are getting shorter and colder, but I ask you to remember: even as the Winter comes in, there is Hope and there is Light." ~ Seamus Heaney

Emily Dickinson... "Faith – is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not" November Day (1876) 🎨 Fidelia Bridges

Siegfried Sassoon (1917)

"The saints are the sinners who keep on trying." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw (1872)

Robert Frost 🖎

An eerie poem par excellence. #Halloween2025 'The Listeners' by Walter de la Mare

Words for Hallowe'en 🎃 #Halloween2025 Pick your winner 👻 A B C D (Bonus words and spooky treats unlocked after every 666 likes 😱)

"If the kindest souls were rewarded with the longest lives, dogs would outlive us all." If you have 30mins, and love the bond that can exist between human and dog, then I thoroughly recommend you give this a watch. youtu.be/I_bVHR1sRyY?...

Let's go wander where the Wi-Fi is weak...

"Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares, and who has broken the spell of 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 once and for all." ~ Vincent van Gogh

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow; I shall sing when night’s decay Ushers in a drearier day. Emily Brontë #poetry #autumn

A.A. Milne

A word to make you forget, if only for a moment, the troubles that currently ail this world of ours...

It’s now been a year since adopting her. She’s already brought much immeasurable joy & happiness — but more importantly (& I presume!) she’s now a happy dog since being with me!

"a play of wind and sea and light..." Kenneth C. Steven

“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

"... ; but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never known before, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villian of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not." ~ Thomas Hardy • Far From The Madding Crowd •

"If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse." ~ Charlotte Brontë

"It is very little that we can ever know of the ways of Providence or the laws of existence; but that little is enough, and exactly enough." ~ John Ruskin 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱 (1889) 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw

Remember...

#WhenBeastsSpoke #Stag #Kindness

A poem by Seamus Heaney, which he wrote while recovering from a stroke.

"But now a great thing in the street Seems any human nod, Where shift in strange democracy The million masks of God. In youth I sought the golden flower Hidden in wood or wold, But I am come to autumn, When all the leaves are gold." ~ G.K. Chesterton 🎨 Vincent van Gogh

Seeing as it's his birthday today, here's the fabulous beginning of a poem he once wrote to commemorate the occasion. • Dylan Thomas •

Rounding off the day with... • Robert Louis Stevenson •

Pause a moment, and read... R.S. Thomas

C.S. Lewis responding to a letter from an American schoolgirl asking him for some writing advice. (Worth reading? ✅️)

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful." ~ Charles Kingsley 🎨 Olof Jernberg (19th century)

Used my vote in the Irish Presidential Election thus: ✖️ ✖️ ✖️ (Presume Connolly will win, but glad to have gone with my conscience 😄) #spoilthevote Anyway...

Seventeen years to the day since seeing a bearded vulture (lammergeier) in the Swiss Alps. This magnificent bird suddenly appeared below me from within a pocket of mist, straight-&-level gliding a short distance before banking & vanishing behind a precipice. Over in seconds, with me for life.

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

"Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you." ~ Saint Francis de Sales Deer in a Monastery Garden 🎨 Franz Marc (1912)

Pause a while, and read... Kenneth C. Steven

"Autumn... the year's last, loveliest smile." ~ William C. Bryant 🎨 Camille Pissarro (1894)

I hope every P.G. Wodehouse fan gets to see this passage 😄🤞🏻 (Includes a delightful description of an Autumn morning, an opposition to lunching on raw carrots, and the most terrific word in 'rannygazoo': an old American slang term for a scheme, or a foolish carrying-on.)

Pause for a moment, and read... R.S. Thomas

"But isn't it lovely Kicking up leaves!" • Rose Fyleman •

This is a DM I sent to someone almost 3 years ago on Twitter. Sharing it in the hope that it might help others.

Next time you see a small dead bird, remember these lines...

"The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen." ~ G.K. Chesterton Golden Light (1883) 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw

John Clare – October, 1845.

The joy of "going up the fields" in a light rain shower reveals Rua's heart ❤️

"I shall do one thing in this life—one thing certain—that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die." ~ Thomas Hardy, 'Far from the Madding Crowd' A Couple in the Woods (1885) 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw

Carl Gustav Jung 》𝗡.𝗕.

Hoping this finds its way to someone who has need of such words.