September

September light

Ah, September!  You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul… but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.

~ Peggy Toney Horton

If we were having coffee: Salmagundi edition

If you’ve got something to crab about, cross the line and do it there.  I’ll be happy to join you.  The view is amazing, and usually the only crabbing I do around that sort of view involves dropping a line in the water and throwing back whatever I catch.

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!

~ Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

Morning in the scrounger’s garden

This is one of the many reasons I am not getting my chores done lately.

… Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?  It just makes me feel glad to be alive — it’s such an interesting world.  It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?  There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?

~ L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

A Wednesday Walk

Pretty.

… I want first of all — in fact, as an end to these other desires — to be at peace with myself.  I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.  I want, in fact — to borrow from the language of the saints — to live ‘in grace’ as much of the time as possible.  I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense.  By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony…

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Early morning bicycle ride

Dewy morning in the meadow.

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives.  It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.  We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn