"She had always in her heart a garden full of small budding blessings; and though they never burst into flowers, she kept on ever expecting they would do so, and was therefore quite satisfied."

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1850, Olive

Such a beautiful, bittersweet story. At times both inspiring and depressing.

"What, indeed, if you look from a mountain-top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

Virginia Woolf, 1927, To the Lighthouse

🍂 autumn is all about hot drinks and old favorites 🍂

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