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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
~ Søren Kierkegaard

November Afternoon (1881)
🎨 Alfred Sisley
A round of applause for the French is in order! 👏👏👏
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Beautiful...

• Sara Teasdale •
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

November Sunset on the Thames
🎨 Lucien Pissarro (1919)
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred."
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Winter's Morning (1877)
🎨 William Hart
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
In Rostellan Woods late this afternoon. (The slowly decreasing light over the course of an hour was a thing of beauty.)
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Ever enchanted by...

Deep in The Wild Wood
🎨 Chris Dunn
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A splendid utterance...
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
• Edward Thomas •
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“You are constantly invited to be what you are.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

At Dusk in November (1891)
🎨 Hugo Darnaut
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🎶 And I...
love Vermont,
but it's the season of the sticks
and I...
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The wisest voice of all...

• David Whyte •
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"Trees indeed have hearts."
~ Henry David Thoreau

🎨 Nino Chakvetadze
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Every so often, I think of these words by Bobby Kennedy on Gross National Product way back in 1968.
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."
~ Søren Kierkegaard

🎨 James T. Watts (1892)
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM
• Mary Oliver •
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It's the kind of night where I wish I was back at Hogwarts: up in the Gryffindor Tower Common Room, sipping on a delicious hot toddy of Ogden's Old Firewhisky, with snow falling outside, and lazily flicking through Quidditch Through the Ages.
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Yes.
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft."
~ Gustave Flaubert
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Reposted by Cian McCarthy
For anyone new to me and my work, a little video about me (and of course, Poppy) 🤍
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."
~ Julian of Norwich

Inspired by Redwall
🎨 Chris Dunn
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born."
~ George Eliot

𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A poem that offers the most exquisite of moments.

'Llananno'
by R.S. Thomas
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
... and into The Week go! 😄

May good things find you,
May shadows not touch you,
May your soul shine strong
With a peace, joy, and song.
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."
~ Blaise Pascal

🎨 Elin Manon
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Take a moment, and read...

Kenneth C. Steven
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM