autumn
March 17, 2010
- Hey! Red Room may have its site located in the northern hemisphere, but, ' guys and gals, you impact an entire planet...and just in case you missed the facts of life - IT'S AUTUMN IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.' So, why not ask us to write about the equinox? Now that's a planetary item - the change of seasons is what the day and week are really all about - not the season into which we are ...
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December 3, 2009
- My birthday season is AUTUMN, a source of great joy, and not just because of warm hugs, great presents and free lunches. It's about the season, easily the most beautiful and bountiful one Nature has given us in those climates where seasonal changes are noticeable.Because I love my birth season so much, I am experiencing a deep slow burn at the steady erosion of this lovely time of year, at the ...
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November 3, 2009
- Today the third of November is the first sunny day we have had in almost a week.The sky is a deep cobalt blue and the trees are alight with gold. It is also the first anniversary of Barack Obama's election to the presidency. And I am happy he has made it this far without some nut assassinating him!I have a friend who hates November because it has such long dark nights.But he lives in Maine,where ...
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October 30, 2009
- Softly cursing in the graveyard on 4th Behind the church, an old man picks up detritus, The Halloween revelers vanished Like the years, overnight. He harvests more Than sticks, cupped leaves that creep along the brick walk Like hands, but wrappers, cans. Let screaming teens Have their carefree terror. With luck, ignorance Will last longer than they want, the truth Not haunt them with its frisson, ...
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October 27, 2009
- I've been studying the goldenrod along my fence...and played around with a few pictures downloaded from my camera, this photo turned out to be my favorite so far...it reminds me of one of my favorite paintings, Charles Burchfield's watercolor, Goldenrod in December, 1948...(Whitney Museum of American Art, 74.62, follow link for photo and a complete entry: ...
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October 14, 2009
- She received the Autumn wind as she opened the window, like an embrace from a loving mother or a passionate lover.. The wind rushed into her still room, full of still objects, fingering her hair and engulfing all of her as if the cool air longed for her warmth, her existence.. Everything danced, the blouses were like they were worn by unseen spirits, the books flapped their papers in ecstasy, ...
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October 1, 2009
- October is my favorite month.This morning I woke to 49 degree temperatures and bright sunshine. I thought of the day ahead and the things I was going to do;errands,teaching my autistic student piano,maybe visiting the grandkids and going for a walk.The trees outside my window are still mostly green,but are curling at the edges,looking tired of being green,ready to burst with the brightness to ...
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September 29, 2009
- After a pounding rainstorm last night,which turned our back yard (where the construction is going on) to a river of mud,today dawned crisp and clear.My kind of day.Low humidity,clear sky,temps in the sixties..Love it!And it made me think,once again how life goes in cycles..some of it stormy,causing all sorts of aches and pains(at least in my arthritic body)some of it oppressive where you are ...
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September 29, 2009
- Night vision is a practiced skill: as with writing, one's proficiency improves with use. These days when I flick off the kitchen light and step out into the pre-dawn darkness, my immediate reaction is always the same: how can I go out walking when I can't see the hand in front of my face? But despite my blindness, I grope down the three porch steps. The first image that I am able to ...
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September 22, 2009
- Virgo greets Libra, pinion of the solstices, holding in tension summer light and winter dark, A truce between them. Tides mock ebbing sap, harvest moon a memory, echoes of dancing in barns packed with tarnished stalks severed from quick grain. ...
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