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Falling Leaves Spotlight

11/18/2019

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I’m a seasonal woman. I love seasons. Winter maybe a little less, as I’m not a fan of driving on ice and snow. Thank goodness I live in an area where winter is fairly short and temperate. By the title of this post you may have guessed my favorite season: autumn.

Leaves are falling in abundance, although it seems the trees shouldn’t have much left at this stage but they still do. When yesterday darkened, I glanced out the window and witnessed a flash of burnt orange, gold and crimson leaves lift off a tree as the wind carried them away in a flurry. I thought about the symbolism of that, an allegory, a spotlight on shedding dying or dead things in circumstances. In my own life.


I love transitions, too, sometimes even the difficult ones. It’s the feeling of having to move forward through something that I appreciate. The shedding season is here in its full-blown glory. I doubt I’ll hunker down and go dormant this winter; it’s against my nature, even though something about that idea is soothing to the soul. But I will expect a sort of newness after the passing of this winter. A kind of renewal in gearing up for spring. I wonder what that renewal will actually look like; and the other side of it? I guess I won’t know until I get there. In the meantime, I’m going to enjoy the glinting beauty of scattering leaves while I can, and grab another cup of clove-flavored coffee helping to make the necessary shedding process a little more comfortable.

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Kobe Brewster
12/21/2019 06:50:43 am

Nice wordplay but I get what you mean. I'm hoping 2020 would be a better year something to look forward to. Changes actually made haha. At first I wasnt the type of person that liked changes I preferred to stay in one state but change is apart of life so I had to get used to change

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Tessa Stockton link
12/21/2019 03:29:05 pm

Well stated. Change is a part of life. And I hope that in the New Year you will see just the kinds of changes you're anticipating. Here's to a great 2020!

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