seasons
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Acceptance
The older I get the more I believe the greatest kindness is acceptance. Christina Baker Kline I have a love-hate relationship with the tree shading our balcony. Every spring its buds burst into brilliant green leaves. Soon the tree blossoms into fragrant white flowers, snowing tiny petals unto our patio furniture for days. This creates…
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Embracing Autumn: A Season of Reflection and Renewal
Notice that Autumn is more a season of the soul than of nature. Friedrich Nietzsche I’m anticipating cooler weather later this week. I believe fall is in the air. Autumn is never a sure thing in Colorado. Some years it seems we go directly from summer to winter. I’m always sad to miss autumn. It…
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Seasons
It struck him that the seasons sometimes gain by being brought into the house, just as they gain by being brought into painting, and into poetry. The hand, fastidious and bold which selected and placed – it was that which made the difference. In Nature there is no selection. Willa Cather Tomorrow, I am looking…
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Swift Fly the Years
I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they led to this moment. David Dabydeen I borrowed the title of today’s post from Alexander Pope. I agree with him. The years, months, weeks, days and even minutes, fly by quickly. I took this photo…
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Promise of Spring
I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older. Virginia Woolf I was thinking about spring when I came across this Virginia Woolf quote. Autumn has always been my favorite season, yet I find I am drawn to spring, more and more, as the years pass. Maybe,…
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This too, Shall Pass
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger-something better, pushing right back. Albert Camus As I walked out into the courtyard of the St. Regis that…
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Ebb and Flow
The season when to come, and when to go, To sing or cease to sing, we never know Alexander Pope I love where I live. It is a designated historic area with lots of trees, parks and interesting buildings. One of my favorite places in our condo is a large, living room, window looking out…
Aging with Grace 