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20 Friday Aug 2021

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Literary Lines, Sylvia Plath

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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

~ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath ~

Literary Lines

14 Saturday Aug 2021

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Literary Lines, Tove Jansson

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One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she was out so early and she answered that there were too many books and far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.

~ Tove Jansson ~

Literary Lines

07 Saturday Aug 2021

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Beach, Christy Ann Martine, Inspirational Poetry, Literary Lines, Summer

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Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.

~ Christy Ann Martine ~ 

Literary Lines

30 Friday Jul 2021

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“Tuck Everlasting”, Literary Lines, Natalie Babbitt

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The first week of August hangs on at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It’s curiously silent too, with blank white and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

~ Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting ~

Literary Lines

23 Friday Jul 2021

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“The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe”, C.S. Lewis, Good Harbor Beach - Gloucester MA, Literary Lines

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Good Harbor Beach – Gloucester, MA

[B]efore them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?

~ C.S. Lewis, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe ~

Literary Lines

17 Saturday Jul 2021

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“Anne’s House of Dreams”, L.M. Montgomery, Literary Lines, Summer

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All in all it was a never to be forgotten summer—one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going—one of those summers, which in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.

~ L. M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams ~

Literary Lines

11 Sunday Jul 2021

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Gratitude, Happiness, Literary Lines, Marcel Proust

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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

~ Marcel Proust ~

Literary Lines ~ Summer Solstice Edition

20 Sunday Jun 2021

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Literary Lines, Summer Solstice 2021

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Solstice

How again today our patron star
whose ancient vista is the long view

turns its wide brightness now and here:
Below, we loll outdoors, sing & make fire.

We build no henge
but after our swim, linger

by the pond. Dapples flicker
pine trunks by the water.

Buzz & hum & wing & song combine.
Light builds a monument to its passing.

Frogs content themselves in bullish chirps,
hoopskirt blossoms

on thimbleberries fall, peeper toads
hop, lazy—

            Apex. The throaty world sings ripen.
Our grove slips past the sun’s long kiss.

We dress.
We head home in other starlight. 

Our earthly time is sweetening from this.

~ Tess Taylor ~

🌈Literary Lines ~ Pride Month Edition🌈

12 Saturday Jun 2021

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”Symptoms of Being Human”, Jeff Garvin, Literary Lines, Pride Month 2021

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The world isn’t binary. Everything isn’t black or white, yes or no. Sometimes it’s not a switch, it’s a dial.

~ Jeff Garvin, Symptoms of Being Human ~

Literary Lines

28 Wednesday Apr 2021

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”To Kill A Mockingbird”, Harper Lee, Literary Lines

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Harper Lee (Photo: Polaris Eyevine)

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

~ Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird ~

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