“I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. Why muck and conceal one’s true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting…
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Life is Magic: Skylands Botanical Gardens
Read moreLast weekend, Matthew, Bella, & I took a ride to the Skylands Botanical Gardens. The gardens are about fifteen minutes from our house. How lucky are we? I know, I know. It is the most magical place. The gardens are the perfect place for explorations…
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Sweet November
Read moreDespite our freak October snowstorm, it has been a beautiful autumn here on our little mountain. Daylight savings always throws me for a loop. I hate leaving the office at 5:00 p.m. and walking out into darkness. Still, the beautiful November twilight skies take my…
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Poetry Friday: who are you,little i | e. e. cummings
Read morewho are you,little i | e. e. cummings who are you,little i (five or six years old) peering from some high window;at the gold of november sunset (and feeling:that if day has to become night this is a beautiful way)
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Poetry Friday: I IMAGINE THE GODS | Jack Gilbert
Read moreI IMAGINE THE GODS | Jack Gilbert I imagine the gods saying, We will make it up to you. We will give you three wishes, they say. Let me see the squirrels again, I tell them. Let me eat some of the great hog stuffed…
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Happy Halloween!
Read moreHappy Halloween! ♥ I hope that everyone had a spooky, sweet, magical Halloween. Thank heavens that our snow melted and we were able to hit the town for some seriously fun ‘Trick or Treating!’ Check out my little race car driver. Isn’t he just the…
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Sunday Sweetness: Snowed In!
Read moreTypically, the snow waits until December to make its grand entrance. But not this year! Yesterday a nor’easter blew in & dumped a ton of fluffy white stuff on us. It felt more like Christmas than Hallowe’en, but we made the best of it. We…
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autumn: forest walks & sunbeams
Read moreAutumn really is the most gorgeous time for forest walks. Bella & I wander into the woods together each morning & afternoon. We hunt for faeries and she helps me find all manner of treasures, like vintage bottles & wild turkey feathers. Our autumn forest…