Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common...

“Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.” ~ Matsuo Basho 

“Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room....

“If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s...

“I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth...

“Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.” ~ Sylvia Plath

“I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his...

“There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things...

“Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told....

“The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is...