How Autumn Conspires with the Sun

“To Autumn”

Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness!

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;

To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees,

And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease,

For summer has o’erbrimmed their clammy cells.

– John Keats –

May you journey through autumn with your heart open wide to its bounty. Pay attention. Nurture peace, cultivate loving kindness, and carry the calm.

Nature of the week:

Shadow of the Week:

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In Your Own Shadow

“Stop walking in your own shadow

wallowing in your foolish thoughts.

Raise your head . . . walk

among the flowers . . .

look toward the sun.”

– Rumi –

Pay attention. Nurture peace, cultivate loving kindness, and carry the calm.

Nature of the week :

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“And the sun felt warm upon his face like a hand with a lovely touch.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

May you feel the lovely touch of the Spring-turning sun this week.

Nourish peace,

cultivate loving kindness,

and carry the calm.

Nature photo of the week – sunrise through leaves that lasted the winter:

Shadow of the Week – the sun paints a heart shadow on a silver-gray trunk: