Showing posts with label peaceful winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peaceful winter. Show all posts
Friday
The Comforting Blessings of Winter
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
Edith Sitwell
Wednesday
A Different Conversation Around a Fire
"And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."
Pietro Aretino
Isn't that a nice way to look at winter! I can't think of one thing that I don't like that was mentioned above... well maybe a glass of wine instead of the jug lol!
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ~W.J. Vogel
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen
Stacked Stone Electric Fireplace Heater
We are accustomed to consider Winter the grave of the year, but it is not so in reality. In the stripped trees, the mute birds, the disconsolate gardens, the frosty ground, there is only an apparent cessation of Nature's activities. Winter is pause in music, but during the pause the musicians are privately tuning their strings, to prepare for the coming outburst. When the curtain falls on one piece at the theatre, the people are busy behind the scenes making arrangements for that which is to follow. Winter is such pause, such fall of the curtain. Underground, beneath snow and frost, next spring and summer are secretly getting ready. The roses which young ladies will gather six months hence for hair or bosom, are already in hand. In Nature there is no such thing as paralysis. Each thing flows into the other, as movement into movement in graceful dances Nature's colours blend in imperceptible gradation all her notes are sequacious.
Alexander Smith
Pietro Aretino
Isn't that a nice way to look at winter! I can't think of one thing that I don't like that was mentioned above... well maybe a glass of wine instead of the jug lol!
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ~W.J. Vogel
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen
Stacked Stone Electric Fireplace Heater
We are accustomed to consider Winter the grave of the year, but it is not so in reality. In the stripped trees, the mute birds, the disconsolate gardens, the frosty ground, there is only an apparent cessation of Nature's activities. Winter is pause in music, but during the pause the musicians are privately tuning their strings, to prepare for the coming outburst. When the curtain falls on one piece at the theatre, the people are busy behind the scenes making arrangements for that which is to follow. Winter is such pause, such fall of the curtain. Underground, beneath snow and frost, next spring and summer are secretly getting ready. The roses which young ladies will gather six months hence for hair or bosom, are already in hand. In Nature there is no such thing as paralysis. Each thing flows into the other, as movement into movement in graceful dances Nature's colours blend in imperceptible gradation all her notes are sequacious.
Alexander Smith
Monday
What About Peace and Contentment
Revenge,
lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods
of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are
viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.
Charles Spurgeon
I think that I will add one word a day to the calendar. It will definitely give me something to think about each day... and something to let go of... if need be.
Tuesday
I could learn to like winter...
I could just look at this scene forever...
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