Life before 2008 22 Jul 2006 05:15 pm
Autumn comes upon us quickly….
The back end of summer is in the air. You can sometimes feel it when the wind blows and the direction has changed. Just there in the lull between gusts, it feels of days to come. And some of the leaves are changing, probably due in part at least to a lack of water, but tulip poplars in the park are shades of gold and there on the grass as well. Trees that are lush and thick look tired at the edges…and heavy. We walked under a pregnant sky today and observed how rapidly the days have gone.
In some ways our lives have been still. A holding pattern of non-progress as we wait. Our own “expectancy” and in five more sleeps we will know if the air will break or not. I crave the active transition of it all, the crowning of our waiting, and the birth of Having Gotten Through It.
We will sleep and we will sit at table together again. We will do what married people do. We will educate and learn and explore. The light will change and so will the tones. It will be a new beginning as the calendar begins to die. Autumn has always meant vibrancy to me, almost more than spring until I’d lived my first one here. We are almost there.
