A Gathering of Moments
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times.
But that is not for them to decide.
All we have to decide
is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Snow was falling, so much like stars
filling the dark trees that one could
easily imagine its reason for being
was nothing more than prettiness.
Mary Oliver
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He sends the snow like white wool; he scatters frost upon the ground like ashes.
Psalm 147:16 NLT
The remains of old autumn keep me mindful of mortality giving way to immortality.
“Nature is the direct expression of the divine imagination.”
John O’Donohue
