“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” — Edith Sitwell
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The Time for Home
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”— Edith Sitwell I love winter. Living in a tourist area, winter is a time of quiet and rest. The part-timers are gone and justContinue reading “The Time for Home”
In honor of the winter solstice
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” – Edith Sitwell
healing in the repeated refrains of nature
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” — Rachel Carson
Seasonal Changes
The changing seasons are regularly occurring transitions. They happen every year — four times. Yet each transitions is different, with each season having it’s own unique blessings and challenges. As I get older I find myself more and more in tune with the changing seasons. Perhaps when I was younger I thought I was tooContinue reading “Seasonal Changes”
Thought for Today
“Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.” – R. H. Newell
Thought for Today
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” – Edith Sitwell [Source: http://www.egreenway.com%5D
Thought for Today
I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. ~Andrew Wyeth
Thought for Today
Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. ~Hugh Macmillan,Continue reading “Thought for Today”
Thought for Today
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter…. In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. ~John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866
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