Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter’s deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world’s oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.

~Shauna Niequist

what is most important right now?

inquiry for today~ what question is with you today?

when it’s obvious what is needed….

And for the lady,

perhaps a field of wildflowers,

an old camera,

a good thermos

and an afternoon

with absolutely no measurable outcome.

~t.p