To everything there is a season

Lately, I have been feeling the change of the seasons. Things are starting to slow down, get quieter, the days are getting shorter.  There is a change in the light and the way it looks outside.
I adore this time of year.

This and spring. Spring is an opening, a birth, a beginning and this is the ending, a slow down, a harvest and clean up time. A time to take stock of all that has passed, a time to put things up for the season, a time to change the clothes I wear or dress in layers. It is very subtle this change here where I live, a little harder to see.
I feel myself start to go inward and think about the past season. I slow down to experience the change.
I notice the sun setting earlier every day. I feel the chill in the air some days. The fluffy clouds, the clear blue skies, the birds changing directions.  It is very subtle.
If I spend all of my time indoors and never go outside, I tend to get slammed with this time of year more than if I notice.
If I notice I do not seem to get as depressed, it is the change of the season, the time to slow down, the time to go inward, the time to reflect.
The sun rises later in the morning and I want to stay in bed and sleep.
It is the thankful month the time of change, thankfulness, and harvest.
A time to eat more apples, corn, and potatoes. Soup  and casseroles.
Squash of all kinds and nuts, seeds, and root vegetables.
I am thankful for my life and the change of the seasons. I honor the changes in me as I live with the world turning.
I am gentle with myself in these changes.

There is magic all around me. I just have to get out of the way. I watch and listen.

To everything there is a season, and


a time to every purpose under heaven:



A time to be born, and

a time to die;

a time to plant, and

a time to pluck up

that which is planted;



A time to kill, and

a time to heal;

a time to break down, and

a time to build up;



A time to weep, and

a time to laugh;

a time to mourn, and

a time to dance;



A time to cast away stones, and

a time to gather stones together;

a time to embrace, and

a time to refrain from embracing;



A time to get, and

a time to lose;

a time to keep, and

a time to cast away;



A time to rend, and

a time to sew;

a time to keep silence, and

a time to speak;



A time to love, and

a time to hate;

a time of war; and

a time of peace.

It is never too early for Halloween and Fall

I know you are all having fun and playing in the sun, but it is never to early to start getting ready for Halloween and fall.


Becca from Seasons Art http://www.etsy.com/shop/seasonsart1031  aka Magikal Seasons has just put up a new Treasury to get you in the mood!! What a great team we have, check it out!! You will be glad you did.

Thank you Becca for including me!

Boo!

Fall is here...

Fall is here...The light has changed and at night, it is nice and cool, what I call excellent sleeping weather. But the air is hot and dry during the day and it still feels like summer. This is my favorite time of year, I love the light and the cooling of the air at night, it is a break from the long summers and a chance for me to get a great nights sleep, I do not have any air conditioning in my home. A time of pomegranates on my neighbors tree, I love them.

It is the holiday time of Halloween. I love the skulls and the oranges and purples and greens. I love the dark things, vampires and bats, spiders and witches, and the color black. The children with their costumes and the squeals of laughter coming from them on Halloween night.

It is harvest time, time to gather all I have planted physically and metaphorically. It is a time for me when I can see the wheel of life turning with the coming of winter and the slow down that takes place in my life. It is also an emotional time of year for me, I almost dread this time of year because of the time markers or monuments that I have in October. It is a time of fires and the scariness and dread of that. When every time I smell smoke, I run around the house with my nose in the air like a dog, searching for the source.

I lost both of my grandparents in Oct on the 21st, Jim in 1982 and his wife Mary in 1997, My husband was diagnosed with cancer last year after the fires, and His sister Jill died 4 years ago on the 25Th. There is a great missing that comes in my life now and a great joy, it is a bi-polar month for me. And I seem to find a balance in that, between the two extremes. I find it hard sometimes to understand why I still love this month and the holiday as much as I do. I was perusing the Internet and I find that I am right on time with this missing and now is a great time to honor those in my family that have gone and those that have suffered, I love you and miss you all and I am so grateful for those that have lived through the trials and tribulations of life so that I can hug you another day!