The Coming Season ~

 “One of the great lessons

 the fall of the leaf teaches, is this:

 Do your work well

 and then be ready to depart

 when God shall call.”

Tryon Edwards

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Remembrance ~

for those who have

 experienced

the absence of

 a dear one's presence

“Music I heard with you was more than music,

 and bread I broke with you was more than bread.

 Now that I am without you, all is desolate;

 all that was once so beautiful is dead.”

Conrad Aiken

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Anticipation or Lament or Both ~

quite simply

the season

will conclude

winter

will come

 another ring

will be added

to the tree

that bore the life

: : :

"Oh, death, where is thy sting?"

"Oh, grave, where is thy victory?"

1 Corinthians 15:55

Freeze Dried ~

we've

had our

first killing frost

beautiful in its own way

: : :

death lies on her

like an untimely frost

upon the sweetest flower

of all the field

William Shakespeare

Closing the Window ~

fiddles

and

giggles

3 spunky daughters

1 lanky son

tiny country grave

held

a baby boy
a tad beyond one

chickens

and

flowers

arduous kitchen hours

again

death

came knocking

the 

youngest

now

motherless

had

only turned two

the eldest

morphed

mother

the husband

thrice

widowed

the family

grief

altered

the fiddles

subdued

homesteaded

1896

Redemption ~

thinking

in

circles

woundings

of 

the past

 

sacrificial

nail holes

Love's
scarred hands
redemptive

act

~ ~ ~

He was wounded for our transgressions

He was bruised for our iniquity

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him

and by His stripes

we are healed

Isaiah 53