Right Around the Corner

Edging closer to my favorite time of year it is, when trees dress up fancy, cool air kisses the face all crisp with promise. Summer collapsing into fall. I promised myself to wait patiently this year, like a child peeking expectantly out the front window for birthday guests to arrive, word balloons hovering above the head, I can't wait! I can't wait!  And after a record-breaking elongated hot summer, the kind you tried super hard not to lament over, the soul, it needs to cool down a bit, to rest from simmering heat of the day, of the chaos assaulting our peace, of lingering unasked-for circumstances.

Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul, than of nature. 

~Friedrich Nietzsche~

Autumn has such a lovely smile, and I see glimmers of its face around the corner. In the crisp morning air. In the first maple leaves showing off already out in the yard, a matinee for the eager. In advertisements for pumpkin spice everything. I won't beg God for fall's early arrival this year, for waiting in hopeful expectation means there is always a promise of something sublimely beautiful up ahead, you just can't see it yet. Like the birthday guests who are buckled tight in the back seat of various cars on the way to the party, just a block away, coming closer, right around the corner.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. 

~George Eliot~