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The friskiness of a cow on a sunny day

While I couldn't find a good picture of either a leaping labourer or a friskily jumping cow on a sunny...

Dear Kind Readers,

WritingRedux wishes you a Merry Christmas if you celebrate it, and in any case a hefty dose...

What a beautiful notion, a recovered joy, and as a description for the reappearance of the sun's warmth! It reminds...

Harold Bloom refers here to Esther in Dickens’ Bleak House. I’ve been turning over in my mind his statement that...

A finely tumultuous image for turbulent and mixed emotions.

'Till morning dawned I was tossed on the buoyant but unquiet...

A marvelous metaphor this, the piercing joy of seeing a darting kingfisher. May you experience many such kingfisher-flaring moments.

And...

Again, a reference to a cramped and constraining existence and her desperate need to escape its shackles. I had remembered...

At winter's advent, a reminder of its beauty and magic. May you be safe and warm within the stronghold.

For...