Welcome my friend autumn. Welcome to your reminder that without an app, electronic reminder, nor swayed by even time itself, you arrive. Welcome to your reminder that even stillness and drawing down can be glorious. Welcome to your reminder that even that which is cast off becomes itself nourishment. No leaf pushed nor discarded. All in its time. All with no lack of faith or fear. Welcome my friend autumn and the return of the trees dancing in perfect imperfection, unafraid to be seen stripped of their leaf’d shields and covering. Welcome my friend autumn. May our abiding by your hearth be filled with stories and silence.

Leave the familiar for a while
Let your senses stretch out
Like a welcome season
Onto meadows shores and hills
Change rooms in your mind for a day
All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside the equator of your heart
Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide
And travel
Back home
Into the great circle of the heart. ~ Hafiz