Change

There’s a briskness in the evening air. Summer’s last heat will soon

give way to cooler days and chilly nights.  The leaves are turning pumpkin

orange and blazing red, with glimpses of mustard yellows  and leather browns

thrown in.  Crispy crunchy leaves have given up their fight and fallen quietly

to the ground to be turned into mulch for mom’s garden.

Steaming pumpkin lattes are popping up on menu boards and Monday Night

Football is on the big screen in the local sports bar.  Baseball’s World Series

is just around the corner, crowning a champion after another long season, and ice

hockey players are sharpening their skates in preparation for their drive to the

Stanley Cup.

The nearby high school football players are looking forward to Friday evenings as

they square off against their cross-town rival and go to the homecoming dance

with their sweetie.  Cheer leaders are practicing their death defying routines of jumps

and throws for the home town crowds, and cross country runners are putting in mile
after mile on their lonely quest for the best time on the three-mile course. 

Autumn brings many changes to the world as we know it.  Time to put away shorts

and sandals and get out the sweaters and long pants.  Time to break out the wool caps

and scarfs, often times in our favorite sports team’s colors.  Time to look ahead to

Halloween trick or treaters, Thanksgiving family meals, and the madness that has become

the Christmas Season.   

Perhaps it’s a time to take stock in what has transpired in your life these last twelve months. A

time to consider a big decision in your life such as having a child, buying a home, or finally

retiring.  Change is natural, change is on-going.  Change is growth.  Don’t fear it

Embrace it!

Revel in it!

Change shows that you are alive; a living breathing organism.  Live life to its fullest.

Change.

--Ken Ferguson--