I found this beautiful photo at Pinterest. I don't know the source, but the way the sunlight touches the wood of the open window breaks my heart and reminds me of Autumn. I think of the past, of friends, of a woman in a window, and I grieve and I don't know why. Time, which used to pass like molasses being poured from a cold cup, is now a runaway train.
But Autumn seems possible once again. I hope, in the autumn of my life.
Love,
Marion
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The
foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and
there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a
beauty who has seen one season too many. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would
fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages
you've been. ~Madeleine L'Engle
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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last
days. ~John Burroughs
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The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.
~Edmund Waller
Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.
~Edmund Waller
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8 comments:
It is chilly and overcast here today. It makes me feel hopeful. Summer is a sentence to be endured. That bitch comes around every damn year, no matter how much I curse her (must have taken lessons from menstration!)
But I do love the way light plays. How I try to capture it, but it never translates as beautifully as just standing in it.
Love you my Dragonfly BFF!
I love pictures of doors, windows, and gates, and something about this one makes my heart ache - in a good way.
It's been a rough day, following a rough week. It will get better, I know. It has to.
Thank you for sharing this beauty.
marian, the other day i went for a run, the longest run ever for me. on the way home i kept promising myself things, mostly a swim at one point and then a glass of water at the end. when i stood on the rock and jumped into the river i jumped right into a reflection of fall colours...already! it was breathtaking. what is it in fall? i don't know. it's unnameable but i am so damned thankful it comes 'round once a year to teach me to be still.
this window is breathtaking.
xoxo
erin
I am SO looking forward to autumn. I'm sick to death of hot and soupy air.
xo
Such a beautiful post. I wish it were more into Autumn. I want to see the leaves and costumes.
In the autum of your life, pffft. Whatever. I for one will never grow up and I think you are a little of that as well. I LOVE autum and the winter. For some reason it's when I feel the most alive. Summers ok, just too hot but then again, I am from Alaska. xo
We had our first autumn day yesterday (it was overcast, gray, cloudy, cool, and a bit rainy) and that's when I got my first blogpost in over a month written. Today it's back in the 90's, but even the PROMISE of more autumn days fills me with joy.
Like you, I wake up in Autumn, and while it makes me sad sometimes, the sad is still better than feeling tired and drained during the summer. Hope that makes sense...
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Love the pic. Even the wallpaper below the window.
And love you and autumn as well
Rick
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