Woman in White, by Pablo Picasso
Something I’ve been thinking about this morning…from the poet John O’Donohue in his book, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Invocations and Blessings.
May you find in yourself
A courageous hospitality
Toward what is difficult,
Painful, and unknown.
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“Every reader is, when he reads, a reader of his own self. The writer’s work
is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader
to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps
never have seen in himself.”~ Marcel Proust from Le temps retrouvé [Time Regained]
Beyond the hill is the auburn-colored desolation of the desert: stony hills, lean peaks, narrow bands of olive-drab shrubbery winding along the waterless drainages and in the distance, on all horizons, from fifty to sixty miles away, the farther ranges of blue, magenta and purple mountains, where nothing human lives or ever did. I find this a cheery, even exhilarating prospect. The world of nature is faithful and never disappoints.
~from Beyond the Wall, by Edward Abbey (born January 29, 1927)
“By all these lovely tokens
September days are here
With summer’s best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer.”~ by Helen Hunt Jackson
Happy September, my friends! I love September and am looking forward to the cooler temperatures that allow me to sit on the porch and read. And I love watching the changing colors of the trees on my walks around my neighborhood.
My plans for September also include some travel. In the middle of the month, we will be returning to Utah for the Celebration of Life for my mother. My brothers and I have been busy planning the details, and look forward to that beautiful September day when we all meet to celebrate the life of a remarkable woman.
My reading plans include a long list of books for the Readers Imbibing Peril-#13 challenge and for The Classics Club. I will be rereading some old favorites, as well, and look forward to sharing all of this reading with you.
Reading on the porch, taking long walks, enjoying a road trip with my husband, celebrating someone I love dearly…it sounds like a lovely September to me!
Wishing you a lovely September, too!
~ Painting by Amanda Houston
A Fondness For Reading 