Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?" ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Autumn Sunlight (1888) 🎨 Theodore Robinson 14910
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"I think there is a native tranquility within each of us that's already there. And through quieting your mind and your heart, you can slip right down into it." ~ John O'Donohue 0357
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sublime 🤌🏼✨️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗲 by William Butler Yeats 0407
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Good-humour is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile." ~ William James Lake George in Autumn (1873) 🎨 John Henry Hill 1305
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Entering the season of... • Robert Frost • 2428
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Words for the Weekend 🥳 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D 284712
Reposted by Cian McCarthyCharlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Congratulations, Mum!!!!!!!🙌🙌🤩🤩 5323
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Always a delight to read... • Mary Oliver • 28119
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026... and into The Month we go! 😄 "My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness." ~ Maya Angelou October Day (1876) 🎨 Fidelia Bridges 56421
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Life is a gift, because as long as we are on this planet, we can grow in our ability to love. The more we learn to love, the more we will enjoy eternal blessedness with God." ~ St. Carlo Acutis 🕯 1566
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of his greatest poems. • Seamus Heaney • 47910
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A poem for Michaelmas from 1820... • Letitia Elizabeth Landon • 0262
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious — they habitually render physical calm and deep insight." ~ St. Hildegard of Bingen Two Horses, Red and Blue 🎨 Franz Marc (1912) 0204
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"I may not have amazing victories, but I can amaze you with the defeats that I came out of alive." ~ Anton Chekhov The Coast Near St. Petersburg 🎨 Ivan Aivazovsky (1835) 3385
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Starting off The Week with... Kenneth C. Steven 3368
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen—but are, if one will, to be lived." ~ Søren Kierkegaard The Woodland Glade (1883) 🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted 14513
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Beginning Sunday with... • Wendell Berry • 1455
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"The Celtic cross is a beautiful symbol. The circle around the beams of the cross rescues the loneliness where the two lines of pain intersect and seems to calm and console their forsaken linearity." ~ John O'Donohue 1688
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born." ~ David Whyte 0386
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"When the moon rises tonight, think of me and I'll think of you." ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery September Moonrise (1900) 🎨 Childe Hassam 0215
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Words for the Weekend 🥳 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D 19304
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language." ~ Meister Eckhart The Tower of Blue Horses 🎨 Franz Marc (1913) 0267
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Pause for a moment, and read... • Francis Ledwidge • 2256
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay." ~ Khalil Gibran September Afternoon (1913) 🎨 Charles Courtney Curran 13910
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A poem for me and Rua 🥹 • Siegfried Sassoon • 2314
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life, and brightened it so much that it scarcely seemed the same." ~ Charles Dickens, 'Great Expectations' September Morning (1887) 🎨 Alfred Sisley 1390
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began... 'The Journey' by Mary Oliver 0269
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Rounding off the day with... • Sara Teasdale • 1234
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"It's such a happiness when good people get together." ~ Jane Austen A September Day (1935) 🎨 George Henry 0405
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A very happy anniversary to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, published on this day in 1937. Here he is recounting its origins... 25214
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change." ~ Thomas Hardy The Undergrowth in the Forest of Saint-Germain 🎨 Claude Monet (1882) 0416
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Written on this date 207 years ago. • John Keats • 35817
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"It is the time you have spent on your rose that makes your rose so important ... People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1345
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A rainy September day can only mean revisiting the opening lines of a certain book: William Horwood's Duncton Wood. (Bracken and Rebecca ♥️♾️) 1232
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There are some places where Time doesn't work in the usual way; and it's to them that we go to in order to find solace in times of need... 0397
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Lothlórien is beautiful because there the trees were loved." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien 318727
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine." ~ Carl G. Jung September (1956) 🎨 René Magritte 0416
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A bit of poetry from... • Gerard Manley Hopkins • 0171
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Joy is inexpressibly more than happiness. Happiness befalls people due to fate, whereas people cause joy to bloom inside themselves. Joy is plainly a good season for the heart; it is the ultimate achievement of which human beings are capable." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke 📸 • 2019 0333
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"It may be that we cease; We cannot tell. Even if we cease, Life is a miracle." ~ John Masefield Path through the Woods (1876) 🎨 Camille Pissarro 0271
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When an old woman dies... • Kenneth Steven • 2488
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth." ~ Henry David Thoreau 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡 (𝟏𝟖𝟕𝟑) 🎨 Claude Monet 06516
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed ... which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph." ~ Viktor E. Frankl 0232
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A rowan like a lipsticked girl... • Seamus Heaney • 0256
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"But you know the spot where our hearts meet; there, they can see one another in spite of the distances of places." ~ St. Francis de Sales 1578
