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This World Has Octobers (quote)

by Prasanta | Oct 1, 2018 | Beauty, Quotes

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” -L.M. Montgomery, in Anne Of Green Gables      

Wordless Wednesday – September 19, 2018

by Prasanta | Sep 19, 2018 | Beauty, Change, Life, Seasons, Summer, Wordless Wednesday

Late Summer Roses   But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.   Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of...

Wordless Wednesday – August 1, 2018

by Prasanta | Aug 1, 2018 | Beauty, Quotes, Seasons, Summer, Wordless Wednesday

  “Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.” ― Claude Monet   “Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we...

Wordless Wednesday – July 25, 2018

by Prasanta | Jul 25, 2018 | Beauty, Summer, Wordless Wednesday

  “Everybody needs beauty…places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.” – John Muir      

Quotes and Poetry about May (Part Three)

by Prasanta | May 26, 2018 | Beauty, flowers, Poetry, Quotes, Seasons, Spring, Uncategorized

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes. I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration Of...

Quotes and Poetry about May (Part Two)

by Prasanta | May 23, 2018 | Beauty, Poetry, Spring, Uncategorized

  “Besides this May We know There is Another— How fair Our Speculations of the Foreigner! Some know Him whom We knew— Sweet Wonder— A Nature be Where Saints, and our plain going Neighbor Keep May!” –  Emily Dickinson, Besides This May, #977,...

Quotes and Poetry about May (Part One)

by Prasanta | May 17, 2018 | Beauty, Poetry, Quotes, Seasons, Spring, Uncategorized

    In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down. In the pale evening gloom, when the soft fragrance of magnolias hung in the air, my heart would swell without warning,...

May Day (poem by Sara Teasdale)

by Prasanta | May 1, 2018 | Beauty, Nature, Poetry, poets, Spring, Uncategorized

  May Day by Sara Teasdale A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Red small leaves of the maple Are clenched like a hand, Like girls at their first communion The pear trees stand. Oh I must pass nothing by...

Moon Haiku (by Issa and Basho)

by Prasanta | Apr 30, 2018 | Beauty, Haiku, Photogrpahy, Poetry, Uncategorized

    ***   Oh, brilliant moon is it true that even you must fly as if you’re tardy? ― Issa   ***   tonight I have no time to sleep moon-viewing –Basho   ***   I took this photo from a plane yesterday evening. The full moon...

No “Wonder”…

by Prasanta | Mar 12, 2018 | Beauty, Five Minute Friday, God's love, Gratefulness, Thankfulness, Wonder

  Tired, tired, everyone is tired. It almost sounds cliché. How can we all be so tired?  We are tired partly because everyone is busy, overstretched beyond our limits. We are tired because of the perception or idea that “being busy” is equivalent to...
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