In The Historic Menstruation Of Bountiful
“I don’t know. I am precisely living my life.”
By Karen Brenner
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When y'all are paying attention, y'all tin actually acquire a lot. But y'all induce got to hold out willing to actually look, to actually heed together with to really, actually pay attention. We are together with thus easily distracted these days, living inwards the data age.
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Many with us are constantly checking our twitter feed, our Facebook page, our text messages, our electronic mail (that would hold out me) our Linked In page, the Huffington Post, the on-line magazines, the games on our phones.
Whew, that’s a lot of checking!
And a lot of non looking, non listening, non paying attending to the footing around us. The beautiful, sumptuous, bountiful footing around us.
This is, later on all, harvest time. Most of us don’t remember nigh the planting, growing together with reaping seasons whatever more. So many of us induce got lost affect with our agricultural roots. (pun intended).
My dad was a farmer together with he owned grain mills. Harvest fourth dimension inwards our identify unit of measurement was e'er a race to the finish. We would accept picnic baskets of mutual frigidity fried chicken, deviled eggs together with thermoses of H2O ice tea or hot java to daddy spell he drove the combine inwards the fields or weighed inwards truck later on truck filled with corn or wheat at the grain mill.
Our identify unit of measurement was completely subject on the autumn harvest. Autumn was the pinnacle of the yr for us.
Autumn is that bountiful fourth dimension of the yr when all of the difficult move of gardeners together with farmers come upward to total fruition, total ripeness.
“Season of mists together with mellow fruitfulness”
every bit John Keats together with thus beautifully wrote inwards his poem, “Ode to Autumn.”
All of this harvest, this bounty, this ripeness is going on all around us.
Are nosotros looking at all the gorgeous fruits together with vegetables?
Are nosotros tasting the final of the golden peaches, the crush of a precisely picked apple, the sugariness yellowish flesh of an acorn squash?
Then, of course, at that spot is the gorgeous parade of autumn colors, the leaves turning golden together with red, the autumnal pellucid bluish skies, the deep bluish nosotros exclusively encounter inwards the fall.
Autumn is also used every bit a metaphor for the elderly, the winding downwardly of days for the aging.
Kurt Weill’s Dec Song, sums it upward this way:
Oh, it's a long, long spell from May to December,
But the days grow curt when y'all accomplish September.
When the autumn weather condition turns the leaves to flame.
And y'all ain't got fourth dimension for the waiting game.
We don’t induce got fourth dimension to hold off or waste.
This is a bountiful fourth dimension inwards our lives, this fourth dimension of aging.
Just every bit the autumn brings a ripeness, a fullness to things, together with thus our lives are enriched with the bountifulness of our memories together with our wisdom. We empathise life inwards a agency that younger people merely cannot do. We are older, but nosotros are also bountiful together with giving together with colorful together with beautiful inwards our maturity, inwards the richness of our autumn.
Last week, on 1 of these gorgeous autumn days, I took my 2 together with one-half yr one-time granddaughter, Ellis Katherine, to the park.
As she was swinging, she would closed her eyes together with plough her piffling human face to the warmth of the autumn sun. When I took her downwardly from the swing, I asked Ellis if she knew what she wanted to produce side past times side at the park.
Did she desire to play on the slide or inwards the sand box? Ellis turned her dark, velvety dark-brown eyes on my human face together with said to me,
“I don’t know. I am precisely living my life.”
John Keats, Kurt Weill together with Ellis Katherine. Pay attention. You could acquire something!
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Karen Brenner has worked inwards the plain of didactics for xxx years every bit a instructor together with administrator. She co-founded Montessori schools inwards the Chicago area, 1 of which specializes inwards the didactics of children who are deaf or communication disordered. Karen is a published author together with an on air author together with presenter for Chicago Public Radio. She latterly won an accolade from the Professional Journalism Society of Chicago for her writing for the radio program, 848. Learn to a greater extent than nigh Karen at Brenner PathwaysYou are reading master content +Bob DeMarco , the
