BOOK 08, CHAPTER 9, PAGE 24

Autumn is a reminder

that each of us is beautiful

in our uniqueness

For the beauty of the earth

For the glory of the skies,

For the love which from our birth

Over and around us lies.

Lord of all, to Thee we raise,

This our hymn of grateful praise.

For the beauty of each hour,

Of the day and of the night,

Hill and vale, and tree and flower,

Sun and moon, and stars of light.

For the joy of ear and eye,

For the heart and mind’s delight,

For the mystic harmony

Linking sense to sound and sight.

Lord of all, to Thee we raise,

This our hymn of grateful praise.

 

GOOD MORNING !

In the comments for my entry yesterday I found some ideas about what to do in my journal come November. Many thanks to those that made suggestions.

- holidays; that is always good to talk about, thanksgiving, gifts, preparations

- our typical thanksgiving symbols. like the cornucopia and the turkey and so on

Oh yes, there will be many things to write about as we approach the holidays. Not everyone around the world celebrates Thanksgiving as we in the USA do, but I know that everyone will be able find something to be thankful for.

I'll be celebrating the holidays here in my journal and hope no matter who you are or where you come from you'll find something that will give meaning to your day and encourages you to SMILE.

I do try to always write about something that I've found inspirational. I've found I need these bits and pieces to help me get started each day. I only hope they help someone else too.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Thanksgiving Day will soon be here

It comes around but once a year

If I could only have my way,

We'd have Thanksgiving every day

Fall wishes for

Simple pleasures

Beautiful memories

Love in your heart

Happy reflections

And much to be thankful for always

Ma

 

 

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BOOK 08, CHAPTER 9, PAGE 23

Autumn is a reminder

that each of us is beautiful

in our uniqueness

SAVOURING SEPTEMBER

If summer is a symphony,

September is a minuet.

Though September plays host to summer's end.

There is a delicacy as the first

leaf falls gracefully

From a tree.

There is a quietude in our spirits

As twilight descends ever so much earlier.

We remember we picked up our books

And returned to school.

We recall how lovely it was

To walk in the late afternoon

Surrounded by such beauty,

Of autumn's splendor.

And the first time we needed that

Gorgeous sweater. And we gather in

During this golden time

To our private places,

And to our ultimate thoughts.

We seek our joys by the fireplace,

Rekindled after its summer rest.

And gather in the beauty

And treasure every moment

Of this golden time of year!

Author Unknown

GOOD MORNING!

We are having another beautiful day in northern Ohio today. Warm and sunny!!! We are being blessed by a whole week of nice weather according to the weather man. I know it won’t last for ever so I’m taking advantage of it while I can.

It is TERRIFIC TUESDAY and I must say that fits the description of the weather anyway! Evenings and on into morning is on the cool side though, so we know that Autumn is in the air

Sometimes when we’ve been outside so much it is just nice to enjoy the coziness of being inside our homes. I do that all week long it seems, but come this weekend I’ll be outside most of the time and will enjoy the campfire in the evening.

My camper was stocked with shorts and tank tops and swim suits. Now I’ll be taking jeans, flannel shirts, sweatshirts and jackets along. I am beginning to wonder what I’ll write about when camping season ends. I’ll have to be thinking about some special topics come NOVEMBER.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

 ...The winds will blow

their own freshness into you,

and the storms their energy,

while cares will drop away

from you like the leaves of Autumn.

by John Muir

Fall wishes for

Simple pleasures

Beautiful memories

Love in your heart

Happy reflections

And much to be thankful for always

Ma

 

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BOOK 08, CHAPTER 9, PAGE 22

Autumn is a reminder that each of us in beautiful in our uniqueness

SUMMER TIME IS GONE MY FRIENDS.

Summer time is gone my friends

It slowly comes but quickly ends.

It's been replaced by time called Autumn.

Nature changes hues from top

to bottom

Green gives way to red and gold.

A lovely vision to behold.

Whirling leaves go blowing by

Carrying smells of pumpkin pie.

The air turns crisp the sky fades grey.

Indian corn and bales of hay.

Overcoats and apple cider.

No more evenings on the glider.

The harvest moon so orange and round

Holidays will soon abound.

Chrysanthemum petals start to unfold

A lovely vision to behold.

Author Unknown

GOOD MORNING !

And a cheery welcome to fall today.

You all know I love the summertime (the BEACH in particular) but no matter what the season we need to make the most of whatever time we are blessed to have. The coffee definitely tastes better on a cool morning, but it’s harder to get out from under the warm covers.

My weekend was pretty good. I got to shop and visit with my youngest sister, I also got to spend some time on the back patio with my next door sister and we got the front porch painted. The weather was just awesomely beautiful all weekend.

The power came back on at the campground on Saturday morning, but by then I’d made other plans for things to be done around here (the porch) so I stayed home. My 3 days at the camper were already ruined so why not.

Next weekend and the following 3 will find me there once more (baring anymore power outages). The camping season ends on the last week of October and that will not be a camping weekend only one day to close every thing up and winterize til next season.

The campers stay permanently parked on the campsites we have. They really are just little homes away from home.

It’s back to work this morning…

I owe, I owe,

Its off to work I go…

 

 

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fall wishes for

Simple pleasures

Beautiful memories

Love in your heart

Happy reflections

And much to be thankful for always

Ma

 

 

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BOOK 08, CHAPTER 9, PAGE 21

Autumn is a reminder

that each of us in beautiful

in our uniqueness

 

Orange is most often associated with autumn, the time of harvest and completion, and colored leaves. The year has fulfilled the promises of spring and summer.

In some ways, orange is the color of farewell, for after this comes the bleakness of winter. In other ways it is a beginning: the start of the school year, and the time one gets back into the swing of so-called normal life

It is also beloved of those who create knock-knock jokes.

"Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Orange." "Orange who?" "Orange [aren't] you going to let me in?"

Or, "Orange you glad you answered the door?"

Orange is vibrant. It's a combination of red and yellow so it shares some common attributes with those colors. It denotes energy, warmth, and the sun. But orange has a bit less intensity or aggression than red, calmed by the cheerfulness of yellow

Orange can be found in nature in the changing leaves of fall, the setting sun, and the skin and meat of citrus fruit.

Orange brings up images of autumn leaves, pumpkins, and (in combination with Black) Halloween. It represents the changing seasons so in that sense it is a color on the edge, the color of change between the heat of summer and the cool of winter.

GOOD MORNING !

After reading all that, I think orange could become my favorite color. I was surfing the net looking for more info on fall and ran into several articles about the color orange so I thought I might as well share them with you too.

We’ve all heard about living on the edge. Sounds a little dangerous or exciting doesn’t it? We are on the edge today and tomorrow we’ll FALL. That’s right…it will be officially Autumn tomorrow.

It’s been really hard saying good bye to summer for me this year. Although I really just said Aloha, not good bye and now we all know what Aloha means. If you don’t know and are just reading this for the first time, just go back to my entries at the beginning of September.

I’ll be going off to church at eleven this morning…I’ve only been there twice this summer as I’ve been going to the little church near the campground since April. I’ve gone to the same church since 1965 and it’s always like going home there as I know so many people and all is very welcoming and comfortable.

I’m in such a habit (some are good) of going, that it just isn’t right to stay home on Sunday morning no matter where I am. I’ll be saying some special prayers for all my friends and family today. There are so many needs and concerns and I ‘m sure our good Lord knows and cares about each and every one of them.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Days change so many things –

 - yes, hours –

- we see so differently in suns and showers.

George Klingle

Fall wishes for

Simple pleasures

Beautiful memories

Love in your heart

Happy reflections

And much to be thankful for always

Ma

 

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BOOK 08, CHAPTER 9, PAGE 20

Autumn is a reminder

that each of us is beautiful

in our uniqueness

Autumn. . . makes a double demand.

It asks that we prepare for the future-

-that we be wise in the ways

of garnering and keeping.

But it also asks that we learn to let go-

-to acknowledge the beauty

of sparseness.

Bonaro W. Overstreet

GOOD MORNING !

It seems the days of garnering and keeping are just about gone in our society today. There was a time when most people counted on stocking their pantries with food that they put up in jars during the summer to feed their family over the winter. Now it is convenient just about anytime of the year to go to the grocery store and buy what ever you need.

Farmers still have to put up hay and feed for their livestock and count on a good harvest as that is their livelihood, but we city folks know very little about that.

When my babes were little and I was a SAHM (stay at home mom) I always planted a garden and canned fruits and vegetables for the winter. It was nice to open a jar of homemade applesauce or sliced peaches in the middle of winter. Green beans would taste like they just came from the garden. The taste certain beats anything that comes out of a can.

I put away all those jars etc when I went back to work years ago, but I do remember….

There are other things besides food that we need to garner and keep. Garnering all the good memories of my warm summer days at the camper will help me get through the cold days of winter. Keeping my focus on what is truly important will make me appreciated what I do have.

Preparing for the future is something we all need to do in more ways than one. As I get older my future doesn’t always look as bright as it once did, but then there are many things still to look forward too.

Since there have been a few really chilly nights lately I’ve put my flannel sheets back on the bed. Now that is what I call preparing….

I’ll be spending the day working…lots to do in and out here at home so it’ll be a busy one.

See you all again in the morning !

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

There is always something positive,

productive, enriching and fulfilling

that you can do.

Get up, get going,

and make a difference

in your own special way.

Ralph Marston

Fall wishes for

Simple pleasures

Beautiful memories

Love in your heart

Happy reflections

And much to be thankful for always

Ma

 

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BOOK 08, CHAPTER 9, PAGE 19

Autumn is a reminder

that each of us in beautiful

in our uniqueness

A CUP OF HOT CHOCOLATE

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives.

Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups — porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite. He then told them all to help themselves to the hot chocolate.

When they each had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said: "Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves that is the source of your problems and stress."

"The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink."

 "What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup ... but you consciously went for the BEST cups."

 "And then you began eyeing each other's cups."

"Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life."

 "The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate."

The happiest people don't need the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And enjoy your hot chocolate!!

Author Unknown

GOOD MORNING !

I am enjoying my good cup of coffee (not hot chocolate ) this morning and taking my time slowly waking up. It’s a vacation day and I don’t have to rush off to work ! It’s been a long time since a spent a vacation day at home.

Since the beginning of camping season they’ve all been spent at the campground. This long 3 day weekend will be different from what I’d originally planned, but isn’t that life for you…we can make all the plans in the world, but when it comes down to it we are not the ones in control. Maybe it was meant to be that I’m at home this weekend.

A little later on I’m going out shopping. I refuse to work at home on a vacation day. Tomorrow I’ll work at thome. There are a couple of shops I like to visit at least once a year so that’s where I’m headed.

One is a Pepperidge Farm Outlet store, the next is a place called the Garden Basket that has lots of plants and all kinds of decorative stuff for outdoors and indoors too. The last place is a department store that sells name brand things for less than the regular price. I don’t know if it is a chain or not but it’s called Steinmart. It’ll just be fun looking around. I am not shopping for anything imparticular.

These 3 places are all on the same road and just a few miles from each other and not too far from home.

I talked to the campground owner yesterday and they are hoping we’ll have everything back to normal with the power by next week. I do hope so. I’m missing my little place in the woods very much.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

ONE DAY AT A TIME

Our lives are made up of a million moments, spent in a million different ways. Some are spent searching for love, peace, and harmony. Others are spent surviving day by day. But there is no greater moment than when we find that life, with all it's joys and sorrows, is meant to be lived one day at a time.

It's in this knowledge that we discover the most wonderful truth of all. Whether we live in a forty-room mansion, surrounded by servants and wealth, or find it a struggle to manage the rent month to month, we have it within our power to be fully satisfied and live a life with true meaning.

One day at a time - we have that ability, through cherishing each moment and rejoicing in each dream. We can experience each day anew, and with this fresh start we have what it takes to make all our dreams come true.

Each day is new, and living one day at a time enables us to truly enjoy life and live it to the fullest.

Author Unknown

 

Fall wishes for

Simple pleasures

Beautiful memories

Love in your heart

Happy reflections

And much to be thankful for always

Ma

 

 

 

BOOK 08, CHAPTER 9, PAGE 18

Autumn is a reminder that

each of us in beautiful

in our uniqueness

Autumn is youthful, mirthful, frolicsome--the child of summer's joy--and on every side there are suggestions of juvenility and mischief. While spring is a careful artist who paints each flower with delicate workmanship, autumn flings whole pots of paint about in wild carelessness.

The crimson and scarlet colours reserved for roses and tulips are splashed on the brambles till every bush is aflame, and the old creeper-covered house blushes like a sunset.

Roger Wray

GOOD MORNING !

Every year at this time we revel in the beauty of the trees, knowing well that it is only a fleeting pleasure. Before long the leaves will flutter away from their summer home and become a part of the rich carpet that covers the forest floor.

Many people suppose that Jack Frost is responsible for the color change, but we now know that change in coloring is the result of chemical processes which take place in the tree as the season changes from summer to winter

Fall weather conditions favoring formation of brilliant red autumn color are warm sunny days followed by cool, nights with temperatures below 45o F

I found this color chart and thought it was interesting that different trees turn different colors too.

Oaks: red, brown or russet

Hickories: golden bronze

Dogwood: purple-red

Birch: bright yellow

 paper birch

 yellow birch

Poplar: golden yellow

Maple trees show a whole range of colors:

Sugar Maple: orange-red

Black Maple: glowing yellow

Red Maple: bright scarlet

Now when I take my drive to the campsite and while I’m at the campground I’ll be keeping my eye out for the different colors as they change. Our horizon is still mostly green with just tinges of color here and there. But the nights are getting cooler and the days shorter so it won’t be long.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

I didn't ask for it to be over,

but then again,

I never asked for it to begin.

For that's the way it is with life,

as some of the most beautiful days

come completely by chance.

But even the most beautiful days

eventually have their sunsets.

Author Unknown

Fall wishes for

Simple pleasures

Beautiful memories

Love in your heart

Happy reflections

And much to be thankful for always

Ma

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