All parts are one
A lovely comment on interconnectedness. I had fun choosing the image and hope you like its gentle irreverence.
'All parts...
Frog-like philosophy
While I have no idea what such a philosophy involves, it sounds like one I might manage to grasp, and...
Bright-tinted shrubs
Autumn alights with bright-tinted shrubs. And yes, you need to be on the alert to perceive their full beauty.
'A...
Pattern-working chaplain
Thoreau isn't a big fan of chaplains and other purveyors of religion and here he takes a swipe at three...
Not long to wait, then
At last, we learn that an explanation is on the way. And the day after never isn't far off, now,...
Sawyer-like strain
Having always associated 'sawyer' with Tom of the same name, it never occurred to me that, like many surnames, it...
Rainbow-like belt
Surely, I could bestow such a belt on a character in a story? And those 'brilliant-colored points or cones', garlanding...
Mastiff-like tenacity
Such jaw-gripping tenacity is used to describe the force that the ending '-cious' adds to words, as in the word...
Thoughts as shells
The thoughts of poets likened to two types of shell, those that come from the depths and those that are...
Well-disciplined eye
John Stilgoe describes Thoreau thus in his preface to the journals, highlighting Thoreau's well-disciplined eye and his awareness of the...
Like the lowing of a cow
Nature's hoarse summer voice? Wind shuffling leaves and crickets rubbing hands together? I like the metaphor, but nevertheless can't quite...
Waking like a bullet
While I don't relish bullets striking things, I like the occasional quickness of a sleep-satiated body waking up, alert to...
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