All The Leaves

Fall is a special time of year.  As we clean out the gardens that have nourished us all year, we also clean out things in our lives that are equally spent.  Sometimes it is ways of thinking that no longer serve us, sometimes it is organizations, sometimes people.  Whatever it is in your world, it is a good thing.

For one, it lightens the load.  Paths cross to teach us things.  When we can no longer learn from them, we are forced to release them.  Second, it forces us to look at what is.  Often what is isn't as bad as we think.  It is our thought processes that make it 'feel' bad.  Lately, I have been in my thoughts more than any time in my life.  Some is seasonal, but I like to think most is because I have crossed a path enough. It is time to try something new.  Step out of the comfort zone.  Change things up.

Often, we don't feel that things are changing.  Often it feels like the same old thing.  Only when we release how we think can we begin to see the changes happening right before us. There is a shift taking place.  I feel it enormously and perhaps you do as well.  Please take a peek and see if any of these signs resonate with you:

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Perhaps what has affected me most this past month is pure lethargy.  No energy. And I don't feel well.  While this is happening, I also see my frustration with a lot of things.  But it isn't so much the things that frustrate me as much as it is my orientation, my thoughts about these things. 

As life would have it, today I have run into a lot of people I admire.  One such person popped into a restaurant I rarely frequent, just as I was finishing lunch.  He sat down and we talked for about an hour.  Nothing major, just life.  Simplicity.  Common sense.  He is close friends with the owner and they were going hiking later together - his grandchildren and her young children.  Two generations from different cultures.  The fellow was a few years older than I and I shared a lot of my thoughts with him.  He had similar feelings about the malaise coming over our town. 

Yes, things have their cycle.  It is time to allow things to fall into place as they may.  Time to go within.  Now.

I like people that draw others toward them.  As we slip into fall, it is important to pull people in, too.  Pull them close.  Open more.  Give them a chance.  And fall back into your self.