Welcome the change of season with open arms!
What if Persephone went to the Underworld willingly? Wouldn’t she have had an easier time? I have read version of the Myth of Persephone in which she heard the cries of the those in hell and allowed herself to be carried off in order to elevate the suffering. No need to throw ourselves into the pit of fire but it might serve us well to find reasons why we like the shorter days! I, for one, am doing a Happy Dance because we finally have a little rain after almost 6 months of none.
What Autumn Happy Dance Are You Doing?
Nurturing Thursday‘s Becca Givens suggests an other way to embrace change. Go visit her and you will also learn how to become part of Nurturing Thursday.
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Wasn’t the rain WONDERFUL!?! …and the weather and wonderful light of the past few weeks have been amazing too! I’m doing the autumn happy dance, too… I love autumn…the light, the colors, the air…simply wonderful! It feels more like “beginnings” to me…each and every day feels like a beginning to me! Now that’s a good reason to do the happy dance! 🙂
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Oh my you did a happy Dance and Song of Fall! Lovely 🙂
The passing clouds have put on quite a show this week I’m so glad they gave us a little moister!!!
The rain seems also to have brought orioles to my apple tree Yea!!
Happy Thursday
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Thank you, Carol, for including me in your list of contributors! I am so happy that I found this group of like minded people. I’m also doing the autumn happy dance, there is something special about this gentle transition from summer to winter. 🙂
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Welcome Grace,
Gentle transition I like those words for NOW! 🙂
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Oh, enjoy the rain! My philosophy is that the more it rains, the less it will snow. We’ll see!
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Good philoshopy,Anne! 😀
If it snowed here we all would be in trouble!
Happy Fall
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I know – adapt my comment to your own latitude!
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Hee! Hee! 😉
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Your page is gorgeous! Fall is great, many colours around, and nice weather for hiking!
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Oh Thank you Elizabeth. You must be British because you add a u to Color 😉
You must have lovely fall colors.
Happy Fall
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Hi Carol, Canadian, here we still follow the Queen rules, but we really have lovely fall colours and the fall cold as well.
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Ah! We are on the continent!! We have a few fall colors in California. I miss the masses of color that signal a real change of season.
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buying a pumpkin…fresh broccoli…fresh cabbage…homemade bread…and a bottle of Spiced Apple wine…at a farm over the River from us…had me lifting my feet a little too!
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A pupkin, apple cider happy dance. Home made for all who dance oh yeah! 😀
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I would love to send you barrels of rain from here in the Seattle area. May I???
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I’ll take every drop! We usually do get our rain from the North. I await your hugs 😉
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Good luck with getting some more rain. 😀
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Thanks Reawyn!
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how delightful you received rain! so needed for you. We are awaiting our first frost. Not so welcome
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Frost a signal; winter is inevitable! So Early? But the trees must be outrageous!
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A pumpkin spice happy dance — flavored coffee, swirl bread, all the yummy seasonal foods of autumn. 🙂
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Licking my lips! I just bought a box of pumpkin cornbread mix can’t wait to try it. The house will smell soooo good! 😀
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I am always glad to see rain — and do a Happy Dance as well. I also do a Happy Dance with the arrival and visit of Autumn. Thank you for sharing and linking to Nurturing Thursday.
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You are welcome Becca. Do you do the Texas Two Step for Autumn? 😉
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Great post, Carol! I do love Autumn ~ the nip in the morning air, harvesting and preserving produce, planning for the winter celebrations. Oh, and unusually here in Britain, the rain after a long, warm Summer! Somehow it feels like a fresh start, rather than a winding down to the end of the year. I’m looking forward to having more time indoors for creative pursuits too! 🙂
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Fresh start good positive perspective, Jacqueline.
With line breaks your word could be a poem you described entering fall so well.
I too welcome the time of going inward for creative pursuits. So many project are beckoning me. 🙂
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Why, thank you, Carol ~ I have written poetry and even read it out Open Mic sessions once or twice. But that was a long time ago and I always felt that mine was naive compared to the beautifully crafted/clever work of others. 🙂
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So glad you got rain! My happy dance is for being almost done with garden chores but with great weather to simply enjoy it!
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Autumn is a golden time of enjoying last rays of sun time to enjoy indeed!!!
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