Jacki Willard

“Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to […]

“Kodachrome…
it gives us those nice, bright colors,
gives us the greens of summers,
makes ya think all the world’s a sunny day,
Oh yeah!
I’ve got a Nikon camera,
I’d love to take a photograph,
so mama […]

“Press close, bare-bosomed Night!
Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night!
Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!”
― Walt Whitman

“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
― John […]

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott […]

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
— Henry Ward Beecher

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“it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked
mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like […]