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"Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them."
~ D.H. Lawrence
Autumn on Krestovsky Island
🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1892)
Kenneth C. Steven
08.10.2025 10:00 — 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Your Beautiful Mid-Week Word:
08.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 38 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
"Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in our own."
~ Adam Lindsay Gordon
🎨 Carl Holsøe
Pause, and read...
• Kenneth C. Steven •
A great rendition of it here from Shane:
youtu.be/G5X5IrA0zEs?...
My maternal Grandfather would always sing this classic when he had his little 'drop' 🥃☘️
(Even now, in my mind's eye, I can see the scene so clearly.)
This poem made me think of the Jewish community in Britain and Ireland.
(May what can be inferred from the last verse not come to pass.)
R.S. Thomas
And into The Week we go...
"Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?"
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Autumn Sunlight (1888)
🎨 Theodore Robinson
"For what is love itself, for the one we love best? — an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love."
~ George Eliot, 'Daniel Deronda'
A Woodland near Leeds (1869)
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
Being in a rather contemplative mood this breezy Sunday, I find myself reminded of...
• Francis Ledwidge •
"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."
~ Maya Angelou
An October Day (1876)
🎨 Fidelia Bridges
"The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions."
~ Virginia Woolf
🎨 Karl Harald Alfred Broge
Something a bit delightful...
04.10.2025 13:54 — 👍 58 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 0In light of the horrific attack that has occurred in Manchester, I wish to express, inadequate though it is, my solidarity with all my Jewish friends and followers.
Thoughts and prayers with all those directly affected.
There is no place for such evil on the streets of Britain.
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
Rest in Peace, Jane Goodall 🙏🏻
• Robert Louis Stevenson •
01.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 33 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
"I have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."
~ Emily Brontë
Deep in the Autumn Wood (1893)
🎨 Grigoriy Myasoyedov
Welcome to #October
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Robert Frost 🖎
Worth remembering 🎯
30.09.2025 17:05 — 👍 52 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
"Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I’ll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again."
~ Robert Browning
Autumn Leaves
🎨 John Everett Millais (1856)
One of his greatest poems.
• Seamus Heaney •
"Lothlórien is beautiful because there the trees were loved."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Stop for a moment, and read...
• Kenneth C. Steven •
One for all the canophiles 🐾
• Siegfried Sassoon •
A little gem of a poem 🤌
Kenneth C. Steven
Loosen the fears that bind you.
25.09.2025 13:48 — 👍 34 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Breathe in...
• Wendell Berry •
"Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born."
"Whether we stay or whether we go, to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made."
"What if the world is holding
its breath —
waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?"
~ David Whyte
Time for some poetry...
'September' by
Dorothy Lawrenson
