Winter has arrived: everything is covered in snow, people find it difficult to leave their homes
and I've started drinking glögi (according to my own sacred rule, glögi is only allowed in the Winter, just like rutabaga casserole is only allowed at christmas.) The transformation was actually quite sudden... or it could be that I've just been too busy to notice it. What a strange year it has been! I've been so hungry for change and so ready to leave things behind, I've spend hours, days, weeks, months trying to figure out what I should let go of. So many feelings! Pain has always been my friend somehow. I'm the kind of person who needs to suffer a little in order to grow. Yes, I'm that stubborn.
Anyway, here are the last of my Fall pictures and I would like to dedicate them to people who are going through difficult times and are having trouble seeing the forest for the trees. I would especially like to dedicate them to those people who feel so lost and desperate that they are willing to give up altogether. I wish I knew what to say to them and I wish I could comfort them and love them and let them know that they are not alone.
So fades a summer cloud away;
So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;
So gently shuts the eye of day;
So dies a wave along the shore.
Every blade in the field,
Every leaf in the forest,
Lays down its life in its season,
As beautifully as it was taken up.
Good to see the quote from Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
VastaaPoista