Tag Archives: Mountain

A GENTLE DUSTING OF THE NASCENT WINTER’S SNOW

Posted on October 6, 2018 by elainedanforth

Rain at the bottom. . . the dusk of summer’s blush segues to autumn. . . the peak receives a gentle dusting of the nascent winter’s snow. Still green, the high up forest contracts, awaits the coming gusts, which foreshadow … Continue reading →

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THE KINSHIP OF A PRISTINE RIVER AND AN URBAN CREEK

Posted on August 7, 2014 by elainedanforth

When I crave the clean of pristine river, but what’s in reach is just an urban creek. . . it is the mountain rush that makes me blush, even with the slowest flow of living water merely a little dip … Continue reading →

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MOLE HILLS TO MOUNTAINS

Posted on March 13, 2013 by elainedanforth

There are times when moving a mole hill means ever so much more than moving a mountain. . . and feeling that meaning means ever so much more than any mountain, even the most massive imaginable.

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THE QUALITY OF WHOLE GRAIN or SHAKESPEARE MEETS LAO TZU

Posted on March 12, 2013 by elainedanforth

The quality of whole grain is not strained. . . it groweth with the gentle rain from heaven, up from the earth beneath. It is thrice blest: It blesseth him who grows and him who eats, and in the giving-taking … Continue reading →

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