Mommy Brain

“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn, that season of peculiar and inexhuastible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which has drawn from every poet, wrothy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.”

from Persuasion by Jane Austen