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An Autumn Visitor

After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth . . . The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet.…
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Late Bloomer

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about fifty years old. Nora Ephron
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Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?

I’ve been pondering: Will Jack Reacher: Never Go Back be as good as the first Reacher movie? Is it time to forgive Ben Affleck for Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and go see The Accountant? Why did I mock the tv remake of Lethal Weapon, when it has become a favorite new fall tv show…
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Choices

I can’t help thinking that we’re more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity. Blake Crouch (Dark Matter)
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The Link That Binds

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy
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The Leaves They Are A-Changin’

For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea. Katarina Bivald (The Readers Of Broken Wheel Recommend)
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The Whole Of The Hunter’s Moon

I pictured a rainbow You held it in your hands I had flashes But you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years While you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon The Waterboys – The Whole Of The Moon


