The soul journeys on, despite the night, frost, or hardship. Its feet bleed, each step laced with pain. Yet it goes on, for it has been blessed with love, longing to share it with others. In its sacrifice, life is born anew.
Visual Art by Laura Makabresku
"I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift."
~ Dodinsky
🍂Painting • Farewell to Autumn • Annie Steg Gerard
By Hannah Flagg Gould
The sun, like a hero, whose chariot rolled In glory, has reached the west; And wrapped in his mantle of crimson and gold, Has sunken away to rest. The stars from the skies Look forth like the eyes Of Angels, the earth to view; While timid and soft, Their light form aloft, Comes down with the falling dew.✨
The flowers, that, oppressed by the monarch of day, Have bowing confessed his power, Are lifting their foreheads, relieved of his ray, To the cool of the evening hour. And each holding up🌸 Her emerald cup, Her delicate draught to renew, Their trust is repaid, While their thirst is allayed By the drops of the falling dew.
The birds are at rest in their own little homes, 🕊️ Their songs are forgotten in sleep; And low and uncertain the murmuring comes From over the slumbering deep. The breezes that sighed Have fainted and died In the boughs they were quivering through, And motion and sound Have ceased from around To yield to the falling dew.
And gently it comes, as the shadowy wing Of night o'er the earth is unfurled; A silent, refreshing and spirit-like thing, To brighten and solace the world! As the face of a friend. When in sorrow we bend— Like a heart ever tender and true, When darkness is ours, To the earth and the flowers, Are the stars and the falling dew.🌛
🌝🌙🌑Art: Under a Starry Night by IllustNation Nakata
"No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees."
~ Thomas Merton
Art by Salome Herzog
"The glorious sky, embracing all, Is like the Father's love; Wherewith encompassed, great and small In peace and order move."
~ John Keble, The Creator
🕯️🩵Digital Art: The Tale of a Soul's Night Prayer by Laura Makabresku
"Tonight, a Strawberry Moon hangs low and ripe. The air is warm and sweet with summer's arrival and the advent of the strawberry harvest season!" ~ Unknown
🪄🔮 Illustration • Under the Strawberry Moon • Loré Pemberton
By Robert Louis Stevenson
"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
🌞🎺🪽Painting • Rejoice • David Galchutt
Every night, she gazes at the moon. Tonight, the moon floating in the Parisian sky is more beautiful than ever, as if speaking only to her.
Digital Art: “On the Banks of the Seine, Anticipation for Tomorrow” by illustration Nakata
“𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤. 𝐒𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐱, 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤.”
~ 𝐃𝐫. 𝐒𝐞𝐮𝐬𝐬
𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 • 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 • 𝐉𝐞𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐧
"The Night walked down the sky With the moon in her hand…"
~ Frederic Lawrence Knowles, "A Memory," Love Triumphant, 1904
Digital Art • Gold Moon • Juan Brufal
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Digital Art: The Little Prince by Valentina Hramov
“Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil – the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.” ~ William George Jordan
💓Art by Amanda Cass
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." ~ Rachel Carson
🦅🌜🍎Artwork: Nature Whispers her Wisdom Annunciation by Trudi Doyle
“Love recognizes no barriers, it jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.”
- Maya Angelou
🩷🌻Art: Lovers and Sunflowers by Trudi Doyle Art
“By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.” ~ Alan Watts
Art by Ed Perkins
"The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
🪽Art: Goodnight Angel by Edgar Jerins
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
~ Henri Nouwen
🫂🌖Digital Art • Under a Red Moon
