Cottage with @faeryboots

Just got back from a cottage trip up North, with my love @faeryboots. It was mostly rainy, and you could feel the cold setting in - of course it's time for that. One thing about being in this country is the cold. Sometimes it's manageable, sometimes there's something nice about it, however sometimes it's just hard to handle. It's not even really winter yet.

Sometimes in life you have some sort of expectation of the way things could or should go, but life isn't always the way we think it will turn out to be. This attachment to our own ideas and expectations in turn creates suffering, all attachment can lead to suffering. The greater the attachment, the greater the suffering. If we can rid ourselves of attachment, we get rid of the suffering. Of course it's easier said than done...

Another thing about life is that we are always presented with stresses from the past and the future, but the past is gone and the future is yet to come. It's easy to get lost out of the now with all of these thoughts and distractions, especially in our fast paced stimulation-rich society, but it's just so good to get back out into nature a little bit. Listen to the silence.

^{The morning frost comes with a certain solitude}

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^{Where man is not nature is Barren -William Blake}

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^{The sound of skipping rocks on the lake barely frozen over was highly entertaining, something I wish I had recorded with my audio recorder. But if not now, then when? And it was not done...}

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^{One thing to help the cold months go by is good food.}

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^{Soon, dormant until the spring}

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^Silentium

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Speak not, lie hidden, and conceal

the way you dream, the things you feel.

Deep in your spirits let them rise

akin to stars in crystal skies

that set before the night is blurred:

delight in them and speak no word.

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How can a heart expression find?

How should another know your mind?

Will he discern what quickens you?

A thought once uttered is untrue.

Dimmed is the fountainhead when stirred:

drink at the source and speak no word.

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Live in your inner self alone

within your soul a world has grown,

the magic of veiled thoughts that might

be blinded by the outer light,

drowned in the noise of day, unheard…

take in their song and speak no word.

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[ Fyodor Tyutchev ]

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Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day, right meow! 😸