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It’s Goodbye Autumn and Hello Fall!

Posted on November 22, 2025 by mitchteemley

Why does this season have two names? Dictionaries devote multiple paragraphs to the answer. I can do it in two pictures: AUTUMN FALL Any questions? Good. Now get back to raking! How do you get rid of leaves without raking? … Continue reading →

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You Can Always Give Something

Posted on November 20, 2025 by mitchteemley

“You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.” ~Anne Frank ζ

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Hurry Up Fall and Stick Around!

Posted on September 27, 2025 by mitchteemley

Photo by Johannes Plenio Do you call it Fall, from the old Germanic word fallan? Which literally means to “fall,” as in the temperatures or the leaves, or both. Or do you call it Autumn? A prettier-sounding word from the … Continue reading →

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It’s the Little Things That Matter

Posted on September 6, 2025 by mitchteemley

When you find God in the little things they cease to be little things ζ

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October Skies

Posted on October 25, 2024 by mitchteemley

It’s the northern half’s most beautiful month, when leaves and sunrises vie to out-blush one another, and clouds and moons stage sunset tableaus. Gloves and mufflers appear, walks demand to be taken, cats demand laps, books demand eyes and windows … Continue reading →

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What Winter Teaches Us

Posted on January 30, 2023 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week The last leaves tremble on the ground as the snow arrives to cover them securing the peace that they have found whispering rest and think and start again ζ

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Falling Toward Winter

Posted on December 2, 2022 by mitchteemley

The big statements of the seasons are easy to read: fall’s brief blaze of color, winter’s frosted flashes of beauty. But most of the time the seasons, like our lives, are in transition and full of subtext. Yet we’ll find … Continue reading →

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Preparing to Give Thanks

Posted on November 23, 2022 by mitchteemley

“Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ~Epicurus “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” ~Alphonse Karr “Piglet noticed that even though he had a … Continue reading →

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Do Drowned Leaves Dream?

Posted on November 10, 2022 by mitchteemley

Do drowned leaves dream of the lives they once lived in the sky while living leaves ponder the fate that awaits by and by?

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Welcome to Fall, er, Autumn, er, Falltumn

Posted on September 22, 2022 by mitchteemley

Today is the first day of autumn (in my hemisphere), one of the most unpredictable days of the year.  True, this year it’s been almost sardonically on-the-nose (where I live): yesterday was a blazing final summer day in the 90s, … Continue reading →

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