Every season has favorite elements and Fall happens to be one of my very favorite because of the things I can count on it to bring. I love the smell of leaves burning, the golden colors and the crunch of leaves underfoot. I love lighting warm-scented candles and cooler nights and sweaters and the sound of football on the TV (don't like to watch, just the sounds). I love baking in the kitchen again...cookies, pies and savory roasts. I love Thanksgiving with the family gathering, aromas from the kitchen and tantalizing foods. I love Advent with the lights and candles and carols and anticipation. It is so good to welcome a new season when the current one has become stale and unwelcome. Hello, Autumn. Great to see you.
I am experiencing some significant changes in my life and I feel another kind of "season" beginning. I think that along with other new adventures and surprises in this period, I would like to add 'blogging' to my list of I Have Dones. I am enjoying reading the blogs of my daughters and a couple of friends. I don't know that anyone will enjoy mine, but I feel pretty darn sure, I will enjoy writing it. It requires words. I love words. I love using words. Maybe if I use enough in my blog, I will reach my word quota for each day sooner and those who encounter me face to face each day will get a reprieve from my big mouth. If that is all it is good for, that is something.
There have been so many seasons repeated in my life after fifty-six fabulous years of age. I welcomed all of them with the same positive anticipation that I do this fall. Once they were fully arrived they proved very challenging, but - life IS challenging - always - but it is still good, no matter what.
I think I will start my blog with reflections on seasons. Tomorrow. This was just the Introduction, right?
