Summer to Autumn

This time of year I’m trying to get in as much “outside” walking/jogging as possible, but since I walk/jog before I go to work, it is a bit difficult - because it is dark-thirty. So it means part time on the treadmill and finishing up outside - when it gets light enough. (I’m not presumptuous enough to think there are not “nay-doers” hiding in the bushes waiting for someone to innocently troddle along.)

Anyway, in mornings past there’s been that ever-so-slight “hint” of coolness in the air - however, as the sun rises - so does the temperature, quickly. This morning, however, stepping off of the treadmill and out of the house into the morning air I was a pleasantly surprised - in lieu of our first “cold front” of the season moving through last evening. (It had also offered up some much needed moisture - not alot - but we’ll take any we can get.) The sweet smell of cool crisp air and a beautiful sunrise - lended itself to remind me, that even though Ma Nature is only toying with us, that Autumn is around the corner.

Hal Borland:
“Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?”

So in paralleling lives and seasons, change is always around the corner and I believe we, as human beings, crave the anticipation of something new and forthcoming, even in light of the certainty of the unknown.

So, in retrospect, the change of seasons is coming upon us and we must allow change not to deter us from our path but allow it to renew our spirit and hope and to drive the heaviness of the long hot and burdensome “summer” out of our beings!

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This photo is from an email I received today “Why Boys Need Parents” -- smile my Buddies and release the burdens of life, as a new season approaches.