Wonderful Word Wednesday

September

by Helen Hunt Jackson

The goldenrod is yellow; The corn is turning brown; The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. The gentian's bluest fringes Are curling in the sun; In dusky pods the milkweed Its hidden silk has spun. The sedges flaunt their harvest In every meadow-nook; And asters by the brookside Make asters in the brook. From dewy lanes at morning The grapes' sweet odors rise; At noon the roads all flutter With yellow butterflies. By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather, And autumn's best of cheer.

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Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before

how infinitely rich and beautiful life it in every way 

and that so many things that one goes worrying about 

are of no importance whosoever.

                                                                                         -Isak Dinesen

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The English rose greets the summer garden with a profusion of colour and perfume 

and our doors and windows are thrown open

to allow the season's intoxicating atmosphere to envelop us and our homes.

                                                           - Sydney A. Sykes

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Noccalula Falls Alabama

Intuition is a spiritual faculty,

and does not explain, 

but simply points the way.

                                         -Florance Scovel Shinn

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Where there is charity and wisdom,

There is neither fear nor ignorance.

                                                                                             -St. Francis of Assisi

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Spring

Now daisies pied, and violets blue,

And lady-smocks all silver white,

And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue

Do paint the meadows with delight,

The cuckoo now on every tree

Sings cuckoo, cuckoo.

                                                            -Shakespeare

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With stammering lips and insufficient sounds,

I strive and struggle to deliver right

the music of my nature...

                                       Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Every blade of grass has its Angel

that bends down and whispers over it,

Grow! Grow! Grow!

                                                                          -The Talmud

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Maybe one of these days I'll be able to give myself a gold star for being ordinary,

and maybe one of these days I'll give myself a gold star for being extraordinary-for persisting.

And maybe one day I won't need to have a star at all.

                                                                                                     -Sue Bender

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Look who is doing better

Within your heart,

Keep one still,

secret spot 

Where dreams may go.

                                           -Louise Driscoll

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I'd rather have roses on my table, than diamonds on my neck.

                                                                  -Emma Goldman

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred,

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant

.                                                                 -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Artwork by Artist Alex Duvall (11) my Son

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.

The love may be sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful, or thrilling, 

but whatever its quality, 

it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.

                                                                   - Eric Maisel

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Difficult times have helped me

to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is

in every way

and that so many things that one goes worrying about

are of no importance whatsoever.

                                                    -Isak Dinesen

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Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy 

one wold know the things that were necessary for one's life.

                                                              -Joana Field

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Advice From a Tree

 Stand Tall and Proud!

 Think Long Term

                                                       Reflect the Light of your own True Nature!                                                                                                    

Go out on a Limb

Sink your Roots Deeply into the Earth

                                                                  Remember your Roots

Seek Nourishment from the good things in life

Remember you place among all Living beings

Embrace with Joy the changing Seasons For Each Yields its own Abundance

The energy and Birth of Spring! 

 The Growth and Contentment of Summer 
                                    

 The Wisdom to  Let go like Leaves in the Fall

            The Rest and Quiet Renewal of  Winter          

                                                                                                              

                                                                  Simple pleasures
                                                                         Earth,  
                                                                       Fresh Air,                                    

                                                                         Light.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            By: Ilan Shamir                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

                                                                                                                            -Louise Bogan

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" Ah Friends, dear friends, 

as years go on & heads get gray, 

how fast the guests do go!

Touch hands, touch hands,

with those that stay.

Strong hands to weak, old hads to young,

Around the Christmas board

touch hands."

                                                                 -Wm.H.H. Murray

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"For somehow, not only at Christmas, 

but all the long year through,

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you."

                                                                                                           John Greenleaf Whittier