Autumn at last. September 23 marked the autumnal equinox - fun words to say! And words that give hope for a cooler temperature in south Mississippi!
Using my favorite reference book, the dictionary, I find that autumn means a period of maturity. Maturity means a state of ripeness, and ripeness means fully prepared to something. So . . . Those of us who can be described as mature in age are just now fully prepared to do something - maybe something great!
In honor of Autumn:
Gathering Leaves
by Robert Frost
Spades take up leavesOne of my favorite uses of the word leaf is in the phrase turn over a new leaf -to start anew.
No better than spoons.
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.
I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.
But the mountains I raise
Elude my embrace.
Flowing over my arms
And into my face.
I may load and unload
Again and again
Till I fill the whole shed.
And what have I then?
Next to nothing for weight,
And since they grew duller
From contact with earth.
Next to nothing for color.
Next to nothing for use.
But a crop is a crop,
And who's to say where
The harvest shall stop?
So
In my book . . . It is never to late to live. "And who's to say where the harvest shall stop?" Autumn can mean life joy!