Fall is finally here!  September 12 and we're having a lovely chilly morning.  The sky is covered in heavy clouds full of potential relief from the drought!  Fall is my favorite season.  I love the sights, sounds and feel of this most blessed of seasons.  Perhaps it's partly because it leads to my second favorite season - winter!

This year, though, I find myself wondering if it's the coziness of the season.  The return to home, hearth, routine (such as it is!) .  The summer is active, chaotic, sporadic, busy!  And while the busyness doesn't lessen in the fall - in many ways it picks up - it does move into more regular patterns.  Patterns can be comforting.  Even though we're still preoccupied with the many activities in which we choose to be involved, they are more scheduled, falling into an expected rhythm.

I guess the older I get, the more I appreciate knowing what's coming at me!  Or, perhaps it's not my age, but the season we've been in - what feels like a very loooong season - of living in the limbo of an unknown future.  I crave something - anything! - that is a known!