We fell into a rhythm of holidays and seasonal change, cool to cold days, gray skies and pearl moon evenings with games, bonfires, and homecoming parades. We gathered and shared food, stories, gifts, fellowship. We reached across the table, held hands when we prayed, pressed in together, cheek to cheek when we arrived andContinue reading “This Time”
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Change
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” ― Jim Bishop Too few are the days of layered-leaves, those nippy fall afternoons we wander under the golden boughs full of blazing foliage that beseeches us to linger in the fading light, cozy under our scarves and mittens and filled with expectancy for theContinue reading “Change”
Leaf Peeping
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me.” — Emily Bronte In that funny way that some husbands have of teasing, in which my husband excels, today he calls me a peeping leaf-er, so I laugh and say he means a leaf peeper, but he knows and winks, so I tell him that I’ll wear that title proudly, asContinue reading “Leaf Peeping”
Colors We Have Wept
I stared long at the denuded branches, glanced down and lost count of the striking fire-gold leaves in piles at my feet. This tree, bare, bark-splitting, seems to have wept all of its colors away on this first day of November 2020 that stands calm with streaks of titanium-white clouds like brush marks above myContinue reading “Colors We Have Wept”
Pining for Renewal on Sunday Morning
Earth knows no desolation, She smells regeneration In the moist breath of decay.” — George Meredith, English Poet The house is quiet as darkness sits with me in this early hour while I sip my coffee and consider the day ahead. A warm afternoon is promised, and so is a family picnic, some longContinue reading “Pining for Renewal on Sunday Morning”
Autumn Dreaming
I collect these works of art in the greens and golds of autumn, a mosaic I design near the root of a favorite tree that keeps telling me the season is changing, even though today it is well over 90 degrees; I lay them together, squint my eyes and pretend the air is nipping myContinue reading “Autumn Dreaming”
A Fairy-Tale
I lost myself in an birch tree, wandering around the chalky leaves while following that smooth white tree-skin to a knot like a snout, a curved line making his wrinkled mouth, and another arching like a brow hanging low over his one good eye. I stood back to see his bark-face grin and realized heContinue reading “A Fairy-Tale”
Walking Into October
Early in the morning, just as the sun rose high enough to warm without blinding us, we walked into October. The birds sang that cheery song that seems a release of summer’s heat, a heralding for the tucked-in time of nesting in the warmth of home. The curl of leaves taking on the hues ofContinue reading “Walking Into October”
Holding Pattern
I’ve pushed my jackets and sweaters back to the far corner of my closet, again. They had a brief airing, a few days of wearing before sunny summer woke from but a brief nap. We all long for that cozy-time, snuggle under hoodies and drink hot cocoa nights; our pumpkin lattes and pumpkin sconesContinue reading “Holding Pattern”
Autumn’s Kiss
For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. — Ecclesiastes 3:1, NLT The once long leaves have curled in; this sun seeking flower pulled up the covers and rolled down the shades, a weary bloom asleep in the gray haze of dawn, a certain sign that summer is settling back intoContinue reading “Autumn’s Kiss”
