October

September

pumpkin

Halloween

colonoscopy

trivia

cancer

breast cancer

November

December

getting dumped

being ghosted

Thanksgiving

is a feast to the eye as the woods and groves give back the light they have been absorbing from the sun all summer.

But in October what a feast to the eye our woods and groves present! The whole body of the air seems enriched by their calm, slow radiance. They are giving back the light they have been absorbing from the sun all summer.

is a mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.

is a month of mugs of cider simmered slow, apples sputtered in a row, and baskets of nuts from brown October's wood.

The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood.

is a month of softened light, a veiling haze, and a calm repose.

The softened light, the veiling haze, / The calm repose of autumn days, / Steal gently o'er the troubled breast, / Soothing life's weary cares to rest. /

is a month that provides a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives.

a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

is a month where summer fades and passes, when we will smell smoke and feel an unsuspected sharpness, a thrill of nervous, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

Then summer fades and passes, and October comes. Will smell smoke then, and feel an unsuspected sharpness, a thrill of nervous, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

is a time of brooding calm, of dreamy quiet, of golden glow in the day that fade into purple mists.

A brooding calm in all the air, A dreamy quiet everywhere...

october, n.All

october