Autumn

Feeling calm. That's unexpected for me, and very nice. Don't you just love autumn? The earth is settling in for her long winter nap, getting comfy, soaking in the last of the warm summer sunshine. The wind blows and the trees shake their shoulders, letting their leaves drift down, blanketing the ground at their feet. There is a subtle unrest in the air, an anticipation of things to come - something stirs within us, and something else quiets - undefinable and out of reach. We must be as mother earth, content to settle in and wait the long winter out. Let it come. We will be here, as sure as the passage of time and season. Let it come . . .