Abundant Color

While it's not quite here yet, autumn is a season of wonder, a season of stopping to stare at the beauty of nature.  Even though autumn brings the chilly weather and falling leaves, it also brings this amazing abundance of colors and the abundant harvests of fruit, vegetables, and grain.  It's almost as though the warm weather is saying, "if I have to go out, at least I can go out with style."  

I admire that of course, because we never know where the winds will take us and how the seasons will change in our own lives, but no matter what comes our way we can handle it with style and grace, and thankfulness for all that we've had.  And if we must at any time say goodbye, let's make it the kind that people remember.

At this point you may be wondering if I'm being cryptic.  Rest assured the answer is no, I'm not going anywhere to my knowledge, but it's the to my knowledge bit that's the point.  Life and the many paths it takes are inscrutable, unknowable.  Life has this funny way of changing so slowly over time you hardly notice at all, and then all at once everything is different and your head is spinning.

Each time I look back on my life I shake my head and think, if someone had told me back then that I would be where I am now, I wouldn't have been able to believe them.  It was just too great a stretch.  And yet.  Here I am right here in this place in my life, repeatedly shaken but still standing.

Above it all, I have learned that the cold and difficult seasons in life don't last, but neither do the warm and enjoyable ones. I have learned to hold onto hope and the patience to persevere in the lean times and enjoy the seasons of abundance and above all and at all times to be abundantly thankful for it all.

Shopping Info:  Abundant Floral Embossed Midi Skirt from ChicWish, Cardi and top are old.  Shoes are from ModCloth