Love often betrays, but a friend rarely does.

Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words


🎨Ryder

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'It was the last night in December. In my little valley, I was drinking from a pool of cracked ice, like a cat - crouching down, my hands flat.'
Susan Fletcher ~ 'Witch Light'

🎨'Snow Kitty' - Soo Beng Lim.

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“The inn at Kinlochaline was the most beggarly vile place that ever pigs were styed in, full of smoke, vermin, and silent Highlanders.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

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Thank you dear Emily. 🧡 Hoping you can stay warm and cosy and that you'll feel better soon. All the bookworms (including those in the animal world) are sending healing hugs your way.

🎨Deborah Hocking

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‘…I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.’
—Edgar Allan Poe

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‘Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”’ (Edgar Allan Poe)

🖼 Gustave Doré

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We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

Edgar Allan Poe
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

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‘Wynter wakeneth al my care,
Nou this leves waxeth bare;
Ofte I sike ant mourne sare
When hit cometh in my thoht
Of this worldes joie, hou hit goth al to noht.’ ~ Anon.

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upon Helvellyn
lichen-covered
boulders beckon
winter's snow

(4-line)


art: Fresh Snow on Helvellyn by Elijah Walton 1876

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Thank you to everyone who is accompanying and for a stroll through imaginary snow! We return tomorrow.

🎨Lowell Birge Harrison

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You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade.

~Italo Calvino

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