Tag Archives: picnics

Moved By Beauty

Posted on April 14, 2023 by anotetohuguette

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Our early spring days still feel very winter-like, it’s cold in the mornings and throughout … Continue reading →

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Every Little Thing Is Everything

Posted on June 26, 2020 by anotetohuguette

“Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.” – T’ien Yi Leng I woke up this morning with new energy and resolve – hoping to shake up the routines I’ve clung to these past few months and invite some … Continue reading →

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Awaken

Posted on September 6, 2018 by anotetohuguette

“ There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.” – Rudolfo Anaya The marine air that we were promised has come to blow the coastal smoke away, although there … Continue reading →

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Rise

Posted on September 7, 2017 by anotetohuguette

“ The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Zen Saying A false fall is beginning to make itself known as I walk beneath a shower of gently falling rain-starved leaves, catching sight of … Continue reading →

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The Beautiful Work

Posted on June 23, 2017 by anotetohuguette

“ In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent On this last day of spring, the promise of summer is found on the sun … Continue reading →

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Unsettled

Posted on June 9, 2017 by anotetohuguette

“ The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.” – Daniel J. Rice The shrill call of a woodpecker to her babies in the cavity prone dead tree breaks the slumbering silence of a late spring … Continue reading →

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Singular Joys

Posted on May 5, 2016 by anotetohuguette

“ The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace and then networks of fading shimmers.” – Ashim Shanker Recently this week, after another spring day turned into summer, with the windows left open long after sunset, I experienced something … Continue reading →

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