Longfellow’s Autumn: Beauty and the Quiet Turn of the Year

from Breathe and Be · host Maryann

Send us Fan MailWe read Longfellow’s “Autumn” and trace how beauty, duty, and mortality weave into a calm acceptance of change. The poem’s images of golden harvest and quiet skies become a guide for slowing down and listening to what the season wants to teach.Next Saturday, we'll step into something a little different with Incantation by George Parsons Lothrop, a poem with a darker, more mysterious tone as we gently ease into spooky seasonSupport the showHave a meditation idea you'd love to hear? I’d be delighted to bring it to life! Feel free to share your thoughts by emailing me at [email protected]

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