Dropping rose petals into the Grand Canyon

It's Freya's day . . . counting the days to the Equinox, the return of cool and an election on the horizon.

Birthdays

The 14th poet laureate of the United States, Donald Hall was born in 1928 New Haven, Connecticut.

Writer Upton Sinclair was born on this date in 1878 Baltimore, Maryland.

Poet and novelist Stevie Smith was born in 1902 Hull, Yorkshire, England.

And, George R.R. Martin turns 76 today. The fantasy writer (Game of Thrones) was born in 1948, Bayonne, New Jersey

Why your voteS (yeah, plural) matter. Echoing National Election Day posts. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.

What in God's name has gone wrong with newspapers? Garrison Keillor wonders and explains.

September has brought a threshold to Sophie Strand.

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal into the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis. Poetry reminds us of what we didn't know we knew. Echoes from ancient canyons.

To Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core . . .

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too . . .

full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

– John Keats, The poem “To Autumn” is in the public domain.