To Autumn
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To Autumn
- But as I explore autumn’s paradox of dying and seeding, I feel the power of metaphor. In the autumnal events of my own experience, I am easily fixated on surface appearances—on the decline of meaning, the decay of relationships, the death of a work.
from The Paradox of Fall by Parker J. Palmer
dane cads added
- Author Katherine May on the seasons of life:
“We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death in which we mass our powers, only to surrender them again, all the while slowly losing our youthful beauty. This is a brutal untruth. Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and... See morefrom 3-2-1: On Learning by Doing, a Rule to Live By, and the Seasons of Life | James Clear by jamesclear.com
Isaac Feldman and added
There’s an energy to these autumn nights that touches something primal inside of me. Something from long ago. From my childhood in western Iowa.
from Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch