Cian McCarthy
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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
~ William James
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If only. (A far better option than the other 2.)
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Escape into...

'The Wild Swans at Coole'
by William Butler Yeats
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"Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them."
~ D.H. Lawrence

Autumn on Krestovsky Island
🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1892)
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"Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in our own."
~ Adam Lindsay Gordon

🎨 Carl Holsøe
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Pause, and read...

• Kenneth C. Steven •
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My maternal Grandfather would always sing this classic when he had his little 'drop' 🥃☘️

(Even now, in my mind's eye, I can see the scene so clearly.)
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This poem made me think of the Jewish community in Britain and Ireland.

(May what can be inferred from the last verse not come to pass.)

R.S. Thomas
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And into The Week we go...

"Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?"
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Autumn Sunlight (1888)
🎨 Theodore Robinson
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"For what is love itself, for the one we love best? — an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love."
~ George Eliot, 'Daniel Deronda'

A Woodland near Leeds (1869)
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
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Being in a rather contemplative mood this breezy Sunday, I find myself reminded of...

• Francis Ledwidge •
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"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."
~ Maya Angelou

An October Day (1876)
🎨 Fidelia Bridges
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"The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions."
~ Virginia Woolf

🎨 Karl Harald Alfred Broge
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In light of the horrific attack that has occurred in Manchester, I wish to express, inadequate though it is, my solidarity with all my Jewish friends and followers.

Thoughts and prayers with all those directly affected.

There is no place for such evil on the streets of Britain.
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"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Rest in Peace, Jane Goodall 🙏🏻
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• Robert Louis Stevenson •
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"I have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."
~ Emily Brontë

Deep in the Autumn Wood (1893)
🎨 Grigoriy Myasoyedov
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Welcome to #October
🍂🍁☀️🍁🍂

Robert Frost 🖎
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"Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I’ll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again."
~ Robert Browning

Autumn Leaves
🎨 John Everett Millais (1856)
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One of his greatest poems.

• Seamus Heaney •
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"Lothlórien is beautiful because there the trees were loved."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien