October 2017
- Iain Thomas
7:45 AM Oct 31st
That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay.
- Ray Bradbury
2:30 PM Oct 30th
Of the skeleton of the ether, the total
Of letters, prophecies, perceptions, clods
Of color, the giant of nothingness, each one
- Wallace Stevens
12:30 PM Oct 30th
I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility
that existence has its own reason for being.
- Wisława Szymborska
11:30 AM Oct 30th
O crows circling over my head and cawing!
Suddenly, and without the slightest warning,
Exceedingly happy.
I admit to being, at times,
- Charles Simic
4:45 PM Oct 29th
a wind has blown the rain away and blown
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand.
- E. E. Cummings
8:30 AM Oct 29th
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand.
- E. E. Cummings
8:30 AM Oct 29th
To dwell in the mind continually - this is one definition of haunting.
- Sarah Messer
9:00 AM Oct 28th
the sky, a blue dazzle,
the grand finale of trees,
this spontaneous applause;
when darkness falls
like a curtain,
the last act,
the passage of time
- Barbara Crooker
2:29 PM Oct 27th
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
- Henry Miller
8:00 AM Oct 27th
The world is the same as it always was,
full of shadows and anticipation.
- Adam Zagajewski
2:30 PM Oct 26th
the light falls so variously here at the end of October that nothing is whole or can be made into a whole because the cracks are too uncertain and constantly moving
- Henrik Nordbrandt
8:30 AM Oct 26th
Near the fallen tree
something- a leaf snapped loose
from the branch and fluttering down-
tries to pull me
into its trap of attention.
- Mary Oliver
9:00 AM Oct 25th
All pleasures are in the last analysis imaginary, and whoever has the best imagination enjoys the most pleasure.
- Theodor Fontane
11:33 AM Oct 24th
Of these thousand-fold Autumn River peaks,
heaven tipped over,
rock nearly pouring down,
and the water sweeps trees clean of moss.
- Li Po
7:30 AM Oct 24th
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
- Carol Bishop Hipps
8:30 AM Oct 23rd
I should tell you first that when the wind blows, I feel wild joy, and when the settling leaves restructure the street, I feel untied
- Christine Hartzler
2:00 PM Oct 22nd
The trees are a thousand species of fires.
- Eric Pankey
8:00 AM Oct 22nd
Life is the only way
to get covered in leaves
- Wislawa Szymborska
2:30 PM Oct 21st
It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.
- Jeanette Winterson
8:00 AM Oct 20th
the morning is color and mist,
Which is enough
- Wallace Stevens
7:30 AM Oct 18th
The days go numb, the wind
sucks the world from your senses like withered leaves.
Through the empty branches the sky remains.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
2:30 PM Oct 17th
Into the cool air
Like there's another cool world
On the other side of this one
- Ana Božičević
9:00 AM Oct 16th
In the fall, we step outside and everything comes toward us.
- Kevin Brockmeier
10:00 AM Oct 14th
These days are songs, noon air
that flows like warm honey,
the maple trees' glissando
of fat buttery leaves.
- Barbara Crooker
12:59 PM Oct 13th
The best advice I've ever received: No one else knows what they are doing either.
- Charles Bukowski
8:00 AM Oct 13th
Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever hear or see anything as it truly is, or if a lifetime is only long enough to begin learning how to watch and listen.
- Richard Nelson
7:30 AM | Oct 10th
despite catastrophes that defy the imagination, daily life goes on, forgetfulness seems to conquer memory, the world keeps mysteriously renewing itself.
- Edward Hirsch
8:30 AM Oct 9th
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
- Jack Kerouac
9:00 AM Oct 8th
the leaves drift away from their branches and gather slowly at our feet, sliding over our ankles, and the season begins moving around us
- Edward Hirsch
5:00 PM Oct 7th
Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
9:00 AM Oct 7th
It was one of those October days when to breathe the air is like drinking wine, and every touch of the wind against one's face is a caress.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
8:59 AM Oct 6th
The essential thing is being a person.
- Forough Farrokhzad
8:00 AM Oct 5th
Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell.
- Meister Eckhart
7:30 AM Oct 4th
I'm a ghost
that everyone can see
- Franz Wright
7:30 AM Oct 3rd
You and I will meet again
When we're least expecting it
One day in some far off place
I will recognize your face
- Tom Petty
2:30 PM Oct 2nd
I do not understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.
- Anne Lamott
8:00 AM Oct 2nd
- Anne Lamott
8:00 AM Oct 2nd
Ordinary life: the plenty and thick of it. Knots tying threads to everywhere. The past pushed away, the future left unimagined for the sake of the glorious, difficult, passionate present.
- Lisel Mueller
9:00 AM Oct 1st
