The Autumn Equinox, the art of letting go, and choosing what deserves to stay.
There’s something about September that makes me want to take inventory.
Not necessarily the kind that involves counting jars of herbs, although I probably ought to do that, too. I’m talking about the kind of inventory that happens when the light begins to change, the evenings arrive a little earlier, and the year starts reminding us that we aren’t going to have endless summer afternoons in which to accomplish everything we intended to do.
The Autumn Equinox is nearly upon us, and with it comes one of my favorite seasonal questions: What am I taking into the dark? Because whether we’re ready or not, the wheel is turning. And we get to decide what we’re carrying.
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