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The art of autumn

Words about contentment inspired this series that celebrates ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness.

When you see a swath of wild grass, with all of spring and all of summer in its seed heads waving golden, you are stopped, brought still. Its resonance compels you to open your hands, then, gather it in, cradled in the crook of your arm.

You bring the story home. Abundance. Resilience. Simplicity.

And there, in a vase and an hour and a bundle of grass, is the art of autumn for your home. Found, not in the aisle of a store or on the page of a site, but graciously abundant on the side of a country road.

Do what you can with what you have.