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Autumn
By T Blogger | October 30, 2006
Autumn has come to West-central Georgia. There’s a nice cool, dry crackle in the air and leaves are starting to gather for the big rake-off. Yesterday I carved a Jack-o-Lantern. My wife says it looks like me.
When I was a kid I loved this time of year. Trick-or-treating meant there were only a few weeks until Thanksgiving and after that only a few weeks until Christmas — the ultimate kids’ day. I still love the weather in October and November, but since I passed the three-score mark I have started thinking entirely too metaphorically about the coming winter. Frank Sinatra’s voice bounces around in my head: “September…December…” bummer. But it is what it is. On a cold January morning the old joints creak a little more and it’s a lot harder to pretend there’s still a little bounce in my steps. It’s not even winter yet and I’m already thinking about spring. No. I’m already wondering … yet another bummer.
Tomorrow night we’ll put a candle in the carved pumpkin, shut our three dogs (who are old and ill-tempered like me) in the back of the house and hand out candy to a new crop of kids. I’ll grumble like Dickens’ old miser “Humbug, it’s all humbug”, but really I’ll love every minute of it. I know what it’s like to be a kid at Halloween, with Thanksgiving a few weeks away, and Christmas just a few weeks behind it. And I know what it’s like to be sixty something, with winter coming and (fingers crossed) spring right behind it.
©2006, Tom Weeks
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