{"id":4503,"date":"2011-08-23T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T17:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2011-08-23T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T17:06:48","slug":"autumn-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/autumn-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For me, August is a bittersweet time at summer’s end, with it’s warm soft days that I wish would stay and never go.<\/p>\n

This morning, the sun came out and lingered in the hazy late summer air as I watched the day seep into my house. The cooing of morning doves, the laughter of children and the sound of wooden wind chimes in the distance. So here I am, perched at the edge of my studio window watching trees, basking in the late morning sun, quietly dreaming.<\/p>\n

Mother Earth is lavish with her gifts this time of the year;\u00a0 the smell of loamy earth, the scent of jasmine in the air, tomato vines heavy with fruit and buzzing bees. On my morning walk, I also noticed a few yellow leaves on the birch trees,\u00a0 indicating the change from summer to fall . . .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sweet . . .\u00a0 Autumn is here!<\/p>\n

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. . . as you sit on the hillside, or lie<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\n prone under the trees, the great door, that does<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\n not look like a door, opens. ~ Stephen Graham<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\n ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti~<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
\n Nature\u2019s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
\n The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy,<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
\n while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
\n ~ John Muir~<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>\u201cEveryday Goddessing\u00a0 is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside\u00a0 each of us.\u201d \u2013 Rose Arizmendi<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For me, August is a bittersweet time at summer’s end, with it’s warm soft days that I wish would stay and never go. This morning, the sun came out and lingered in the hazy late summer air as I watched the day seep into my house. The cooing of morning doves, the laughter of children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[624,4,74],"tags":[850,607,848,908,894,394,642,849],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4571,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}