by Prasanta | Nov 14, 2017 | Photos, Poetry, Quotes
“November–with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills. With dear days when the austere woods were beautiful and gracious in a dignified serenity of folded hands and closed eyes–days...
by Prasanta | Nov 8, 2017 | Faithfulness, Journey, Memoir, Memories, Quotes, Stories about home, Story, Writing
“It is clear we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance. We can be sure of very little, but the need to court...
by Prasanta | Nov 6, 2017 | Beauty, Quotes
“Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.” -William Cullen Bryant “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” -George Eliot...
by Prasanta | Oct 30, 2017 | Pain, Purpose, Quotes
There are times when it might be difficult to know what “good” might come out of certain circumstances in our lives, particularly if those circumstances aren’t so “good”. This is a part of the faith walk that I cannot see: I trust (and often must make the choice to...
by Prasanta | Oct 21, 2017 | Beauty, Quotes
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” -Jim Bishop “He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” -J.R.R....
by Prasanta | Oct 12, 2017 | Quotes, Writing
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by Prasanta | Sep 28, 2017 | Quotes, Writing
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most...
by Prasanta | Sep 14, 2017 | Poetry, Quotes, Summer
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date… —- Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night ...
by Prasanta | Sep 8, 2017 | Beauty, Perspective, Photogrpahy, Photos, Quotes
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. — John Muir Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. — Lao Tzu Look deep into...
by Prasanta | Aug 21, 2017 | Quotes, Summer
Psalm 121 A song of ascents. 1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? 2 My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber; 4 indeed, he...
