Cian McCarthy

This account exists to bring Joy.

"The days are getting shorter and colder, but I ask you to remember: even as the Winter comes in, there is Hope and there is Light." ~ Seamus Heaney

"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson Golden Light (1883) 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw

They would like that. • Donna Ashworth •

"I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." ~ Charlotte Brontë 🎨 Nino Chakvetadze

Pause for a moment, and read... • Sara Teasdale •

"The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate." ~ John Ruskin November Evening in a Welsh Wood 🎨 James Thomas Watts (1895)

Pause for a moment, and read... • Mary Oliver •

Blueing into all that was ever meant, the November month is Sunday sent.

I think of him rather as an enormous owl abroad in the shadows... R.S. Thomas

"It is very little that we can ever know of the ways of Providence or the Laws of Existence; but that little is enough, and exactly enough." ~ John Ruskin October Gold (1889) 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw

Rounding off the day with some Lord Byron.

“Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words.” ~ Elizabeth Gaskell A Woman in an Autumn Landscape 🎨 William John Hennessy (1868)

"a play of wind and sea and light..." • Kenneth Steven •

"I shall do one thing in this life—one thing certain—that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die." ~ Thomas Hardy, 'Far from the Madding Crowd' A Couple in the Woods (1885) 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw

Robert Frost 🖎

"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright." ~ Henry David Thoreau The Wooded Lane 🎨 Claude Monet (1876)

So sweet 😊 • Wendy Cope •

"Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself." ~ Margaret Fuller The Autumn Forest (1902) 🎨 Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Beautiful 🤌🏼✨️ 'The Light Continues' by Linda Gregg