The hint of autumn came early this year with cool, misty mornings,
color changes in early August and wondrous light.
The end of this summer is the end of a season of light and the beginning of another.
- David Gallipoli
"Light cast a spell over me. I saw it everywhere I went and watched it by the hour… This light was not like the flow of water, but something more fleeting and numberless, for its source was everywhere. I liked seeing that the light came from nowhere in particular but was an element just like air. We never ask ourselves where air comes from, for it is there and we are alive. "
"When a ray of sunshine comes, open out, absorb it to the depths of your being. Throw yourself into each moment as if it were the only one that really existed."
"With the sun it is the same thing.
There was no use my seeing the sun high up in the sky in its place in space at noon, since I was always searching for it elsewhere. I looked for it in the flickering of its beams, in the echo which, as a rule, we attribute only to sound, but which belongs to light in the same measure. Radiance multiplied, reflected itself from one window to the next, from a fragment of wall to cloud above. It entered into me, became part of me. I was eating sun."
"Darkness, for me, was still light, but in a new form and a new rhythm. It was light at a slower pace. In other words, nothing in the world, not even what I saw inside myself with closed eyelids, was outside this great miracle of light."
"The reality — the oneness of the world — left me in the lurch, incapable of explaining it, because it seemed obvious. I could only repeat: “There is only one world. Things outside only exist if you go to meet them with everything you carry in yourself. As to the things inside, you will never see them well unless you allow those outside to enter in.”
--Jacques Lusseyran
First snow Sept 21st